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Dan Munro: Top Ten Healthcare Quotes for 2012
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- “Just because I have a fitness app on my phone doesn’t make me an athlete.” Dr. Harry Greenspun, Senior Advisor, Deloitte
- “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
- “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
- “15% – 20% of care is ‘clinically inappropriate.’” Dr. Brent James, Chief Quality Officer, Intermountain Healthcare
- 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
- “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
- “We applaud the sequencing of the genome – but not life.” will.i.am
- “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
- “30,000 Medicare recipients die each year from care they didn’t need.” Shannon Brownlee, Acting Director, New America Foundation HealthPolicy Program
- “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
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