24 Quotes by Helen Darling

Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and productivity. Premiums are simple but until the Quality Dividend Calculator, nobody gave you a number showing you how Plan X was going to affect employee productivity. But employers need to know that number in order to determine which plan really represents the best value. The 'productivity cost' of a bad health plan can be very, very high.

Employers should not focus on employee accountability alone. When used in combination with promoting quality care, health management, use of data and appropriate use of care, companies are able to achieve significantly lower cost trends.

Employers should not focus on employee accountability alone.

There's no one in the business world who doesn't share the position that the U.S. health care system has a crisis, ... The issue here isn't General Motors. The issue is the unaffordability of health care.

This isn't going to solve their problem at GM. They're still 15 years behind everybody else.

They don't want to say they are going to see a psychiatrist.

They don't like use or lose. They would rather pay with after-tax money than turn money back in.

There's a higher level of frustration, and there's a greater desire for solutions.

It's going to radically change medicine. The biggest problem in our country is that we don't have 21st century health IT.