Insurance NewsNet quoted J.P. Wieske in an article about the rising cost of healthcare, specifically skyrocketing insurance premiums.
Advances in medicine mean that “we are living in the age of miracles,” said J.P. Wieske, vice president of state affairs with Horizon Government Affairs, but those miracles aren’t cheap. He pointed to advances treatments for sickle cell disease and hemophilia that cost millions of dollars.
“We’re in an age of living longer and living better,” he said. “But we’re not there yet. Financing these treatments will be an issue.”