The one big winner of the Obamacare wars
The Trump-era attack on the Affordable Care Act has left the nation’s health system plagued with uncertainties: Will “Obamacare” insurance survive? Can independent hospitals make it? What’s next for doctors? And will patients ever really get “affordable” care?
But one certainty is prevailing: No matter what the outcome, it will be a bonanza for health-care consultants.
Health care, as the current president famously noted, is complicated—and the past decade of change has generated an immense new market for consultants, advisers and a whole universe of ancillary experts who don’t practice medicine but promise to help navigate a landscape that seems to change every six weeks.
