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Health Quotes by Scott Gottlieb

40 Health quotes by Scott Gottlieb

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Obamacare builds a single, nationwide set of benefits, leaving little room for personal choice. The author links public health to national security, saying a healthy population protects the country. It also warns that faulty digital‑health information can mislead people, though the danger is smaller than that of ordinary products.

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Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

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The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

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Obamacare is making the market for health care less competitive.

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Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.

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ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.

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One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

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It's now evident that public health is part of national security.

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Obamacare has made insurance costlier and far less comprehensive.

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One option is to run Medicaid like a health program - rather than an exercise in political morals - and let states…

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Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system…

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A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage…

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While faulty information from a digital health tool can influence people to make bad decisions, the risks are far lower than those…

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The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to…

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Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very…

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In countries such as France and Germany, layers of bureaucracy like health boards have been specifically engineered to delay the adoption of…

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The fact is that Medicaid doesn't even serve well the medical needs of people who should be its principal focus - Americans…

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Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to…

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Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a…

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Obamacare's costly regulations mean that the mix of people who sign up are tending to be older and sicker. Many young and…

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The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts…

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There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether…

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The period of time between the uncovering of some fundamental scientific finding that underpinned a medical advance, and the realization of the…

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For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people…

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Under Obamacare, doctors have been strained by costly new regulations, intricate payment 'reforms' that tie their Medicare reimbursement to complex federal reporting…

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One of the untold elements of the rapid decay underway in the Obamacare exchanges is the massive shift toward the Medicaid managed…

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Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody…

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The overly engineered, overly regulated market that Obamacare created resulted in restrictive health care plans that provide little choice, and coverage that…

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The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of…

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Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people…

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Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists.

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In short order, Obamacare is evolving into a Medicaid marketplace. Not only in terms of the design and quality of the narrow-network…

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Health-assessment software such as CareEvolution's 'Safer Covid' tool can combine multiple health factors to evaluate a person's total risk of contracting Covid…

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Reformers in Washington need to do a better job of explaining how market-based alternatives to ObamaCare are a better outcome for the…

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The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn't a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It's hollow coverage.

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A true legislative alternative to ObamaCare would support physician ownership of independent medical practices, and preserve local competition between doctors and choice…

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President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also…

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America tolerates a heavy toll from the flu on health and productivity. But if Covid becomes a twin risk, the heath-care system…

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Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have…

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Zika is an addressable threat. While it falls outside of the regular routine of public health preparedness, we shouldn't be scrambling for…

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At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to…

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Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.

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While faulty information from a digital health tool can influence people to make bad decisions, the risks are far lower than those posed by…