Amidst the rhetoric of Campaign 2016, it’s difficult to predict what changes Americans can expect to see in the healthcare field over the next year or more. The results of the November election will certainly influence health policy and the future of care, in ways that cannot be predicted until all ballots are counted.
But the reality of escalating health costs, and the acceleration of consolidation across the industry, will drive changes that will reshape the future for the next decade and beyond. Peering into our crystal ball, the Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis has identified major issues and trends that will impact the industry over the next year, no matter what the election outcomes. Here are ten headlines that we think you can expect to read during 2016, written as if they were “ripped from the headlines” from next year:
Will these headlines prove to be fact or fiction in 2016? Stay tuned. No doubt, there will be surprises, but the biggest one would be a quiet year in healthcare. That’s unlikely. Healthcare will be in the headlines in 2016.