18 Quotes by Steven Brill

America’s total healthcare bill for 2014 is $3 trillion. That’s more than the next ten biggest spenders combined: Japan, Germany, France, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and Australia. All that extra money produces no better, and in many cases worse, results.

Americans all became gamblers. A house was not a home. It was a bet.

People care about their health a lot more than they care about healthcare policies or economics.

The cost spikes for the government programs that protected the elderly and the poor were even worse. Better medical care kept people alive longer, and that meant Medicare had to pay for more complicated and more expensive treatment during those prolonged lives.

He has spread all these termites throughout the departments and agencies.

The elites have become so skilled and so hardworking that they are able to protect each other better than ever before.

A contest was then held for their kids, and they won, too.

Medicare, which pays hospitals based on their costs, plus overhead and a small profit margin, for providing each service, would have paid about $825 for all three tests. Also.

It’s about money: Healthcare is America’s largest industry by far, employing a sixth of the country’s workforce.