Jill Mendlen

en involved in her share of meetings discussing the unsustainable future of health care costs.

Recognized as a national expert on managed care systems, the president and CEO of San Diego-based LightBridge Hospice and Palliative Care remembers the way industry leaders and policy makers have discussed tackling the years-away medical inflation promised by the country's changing demographics.

Suddenly, she said, those 15-year timetables got shorter and shorter, until everyone looked up and realized the tidal wave was just off shore.

“We as humans tend to move because we have to,” Mendlen said. “We wait for the heat.”

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