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The explosion of ‘value-based care’ on Wall Street

“Value-based care” — that familiar, vague phrase that has no real definition but that everyone supports — is firmly entrenched in Wall Street vernacular.

The phrase “value-based care” began circulating during company earnings calls and presentations, and at banking conferences, in the second quarter of 2011, a year after former President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, according to financial search engine and database AlphaSense. It’s been mentioned more than 1,800 times since then, peaking in 2022.