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Right now, we are doing it blindly.
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We are guests in our patients' lives.
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I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.
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Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.
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Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.
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I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.
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We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.
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I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.
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The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
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It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
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Health Care
Politically Correct
World
Best Health World
Believed
Correct
Politically
Widely
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As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.
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Dedicated
Educator
Helping
Helping People
Professional Career
Doctor
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As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.
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Careers
Doctors
People
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Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!
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Regulation
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The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.
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Holy Grail
Self
United States
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In an interview, last year in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick said, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
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We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
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Choices
Data
Efficient
Frugal
Health Care
Health Care System
Health Good Care
Inform
Patients
Pick
System
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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Definitions
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Fortunate
Funding
Health Care
Healthcare
Humane
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Among
Less
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
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Relationship
Health
Core
Health Care
Human Beings
Love You
Suffering
Thinking
Two
Agreed
Answer
Beings
Help
Relieve
Right Answer
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
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War
Doctors
Health Care
Hospitals
Mean
Patient
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Pharmaceutical Companies
Talk
Companies
Set
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It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.
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Benefits
Crucial
Cry
Disabled
Dollars
Elders
Foul
Health Care
Instant
Needy
Prevention
Annual
Bear
Programs
Rationing
Reduce
Shift
Thousands
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It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.
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People
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The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
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Accounting
Conversation
Decision
Democratic
Health Care
Ill
Bill
Chronically
Total
Eyes
Potentially
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