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Dan Munro: Top Ten Healthcare Quotes for 2012

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 13:24


  1. “Just because I have a fitness app on my phone doesn’t make me an athlete.” Dr. Harry Greenspun, Senior Advisor, Deloitte
  2. “How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That’s why the healthcare system won’t change the healthcare system.” Rick Scott, Governor, Florida
  3. “Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.” Vinod Khosla
  4. “15% – 20% of care is ‘clinically inappropriate.’” Dr. Brent James, Chief Quality Officer, Intermountain Healthcare
  5. One of three American healthcare dollars is wasted and for the past decade, all wage increases have been absorbed by healthcare costs.”Don Berwick, Former CMS Administrator
  6. “When an employer sits down with his health care providers – the broker, the health plan, the physician, the hospital, the drug and device firms – everyone in the room wants it to cost more – and they
  7. “We applaud the sequencing of the genome – but not life.” will.i.am
  8. “Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes will affect half of Americans in the next eight years at a projected cost of $3.3 trillion.” Dr. Dean Ornish
  9. “30,000 Medicare recipients die each year from care they didn’t need.” Shannon Brownlee, Acting Director, New America Foundation HealthPolicy Program
  10. “I don’t blame anybody – they’re just doing what makes sense and we have to change what makes sense.” Don Berwick, Former CMS Administrator


Source: Forbes
Source URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2012/12/23/top-ten-heal...



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