Local health-care execs: Current system ‘dysfunctional’

BOULDER — Dissatisfaction and frustration with the health-care system permeated the room Tuesday as local health-care executives discussed the future of relationships between patients, doctors, insurers and hospitals under the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as ObamaCare.

Topics at BizWest’s CEO Roundtable on Health Care included skyrocketing insurance premiums and costs for health-care services, patients’ inability to choose their doctors, lack of pricing transparency before services are rendered, and alternatives for small businesses.

Nearly all were in agreement that the status quo is not working, and most were short on a solution.

“We have a dysfunctional ecosystem,” Dr. Clint Flanagan, co-founder of…