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Providing preventive care and catching the onset of something like diabetes. lets pay providers on the basis of performance as opposed to the basis of how many procedures they have engaged in. now, so what this board does is identify the best practices and says, lets use the purchasing power of medicare and medicaid to help to institutionize all of these good things that we do. the fact of the matter is that when obamacare is fully implemented, we are going to be in a position to show that costs...

Providing preventive care and catching the onset of something like diabetes. lets pay providers on the basis of performance as opposed to the basis of how many procedures they have engaged in. now, so what this board does is identify the best practices and says, lets use the purchasing power of medicare and medicaid to help to institutionize all of these good things that we do. the fact of the matter is that when obamacare is fully implemented, we are going to be in a position to show that costs...

Need a board of 15 people telling us what kind of treatment we should have, we instead need to have insurance plans, providers, hospital, doctors, on target, such that they have an incentive, as you say, performance pay, for doing an excellent job for keep being costs down. thats happening. inner mountain, mayo clinic is doing it. cleveland clinic, others. but the right answer is not to have the federal government take over health care and start mandating to the providers across america, telling...

The key task we have in health care is to get the costs down, so its more affordable for families and then he has as a model for that doing that, a board of people at the government, an unelected, apointed board who are going to decide what kind of treatment you ought to have. in my opinion, the government is not effective in... in bringing down the cost of almost anything. as a matter of fact, free people and free enterprises, trying to find ways to do things better are able to be more effectiv...

Need a board of 15 people telling us what kind of treatment we should have, we instead need to have insurance plans, providers, hospital, doctors, on target, such that they have an incentive, as you say, performance pay, for doing an excellent job for keep being costs down. thats happening. inner mountain, mayo clinic is doing it. cleveland clinic, others. but the right answer is not to have the federal government take over health care and start mandating to the providers across america, telling...

Prompted by reckless behavior across the board. now twasnt just on wall street. you had loan officers that were giving loans and mortgages that really shouldnt have been given bos because the folks didnt qualify. hupeople borrowing money to buy a house they couldnt afford. hucredit agencies stamping these as a-1 great investments when they werent. but you also had banks making money hand over fist, churning out products that the bankers themselves didnt even understand, in order to make big prof...

And pushed it through. what we did was work together. 200 legislators, only 2 voted against the plan by the time we were finished. what were some differences? we didnt raise taxes. have you raised them by $twenty one trillion with obamacare. we cannot didnt cut medicare -- of course, we dont have medicare, by $716 billion. we didnt put into place a board to tell people what treatment they could receive. we didnt do something that a number of people recognize, put people in a position where they ...

Cost $2500 a year more than traditional insurance. so it is adding to cost. as a matter of fact, when the president ran for office, he said that by this year, he would have brought down the cost of insurance for each family by $2500 a fumely. instead, its gone up by that amount. so its expensive. expensive things hurt families. thats one reason i dont want it. second reason tcuts $716 billion from medicare. i want to put that money back in medicare for our seniors. number 3 tputs in place an une...

And pushed it through. what we did was work together. 200 legislators, only 2 voted against the plan by the time we were finished. what were some differences? we didnt raise taxes. have you raised them by $twenty one trillion with obamacare. we cannot didnt cut medicare -- of course, we dont have medicare, by $716 billion. we didnt put into place a board to tell people what treatment they could receive. we didnt do something that a number of people recognize, put people in a position where they ...

Prompted by reckless behavior across the board. now twasnt just on wall street. you had loan officers that were giving loans and mortgages that really shouldnt have been given bos because the folks didnt qualify. hupeople borrowing money to buy a house they couldnt afford. hucredit agencies stamping these as a-1 great investments when they werent. but you also had banks making money hand over fist, churning out products that the bankers themselves didnt even understand, in order to make big prof...