Education Quote by Dean Ornish

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world…

— John Sculley

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that…

— Ron Wyden

“Dr. Ornish “realized reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research.”97”

— Michael Greger

“Broken payment models. Because we rely on insurance companies to pay for care, the treatments offered are not necessarily the most effective or those…

— Chris Kresser

No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think…

— Atul Gawande

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires…

— Atul Gawande

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it…

— Michael Moore

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government.…

— Thomas Sowell

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

— Ron Wyden

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and…

— Abraham Flexner

We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and…

— Matthew Heineman