The real cost of unsustainable healthcare: Patients will lose out if spiralling costs and market restrictions are tamed

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The principal sustainability challenge facing the healthcare sector today is cost. As medical costs continue to grow, a basic social need becomes increasingly inaccessible to much of the population.

Thankfully, different approaches are emerging through new treatment options, technology and innovative business models. This can ultimately make healthcare more affordable and help consumers, governments and society alike. The innovation and scale required is also an opportunity for companies and investors. Healthcare budget constraints are forcing treatment access restrictions, denying some patients therapies required to treat their diseases with high out-of-pocket payments driving large medical debts. UK patients, for instance, do not have access to a third of new treatments due to ...