Health Quote by Michael E. Porter

“competition in the current system is too local, because it is centered on relatively small, self-contained local institutions catering to local needs. Services are…

— Michael E. Porter

“When providers have to compete on results, the problem of supply-driven demand, in which available capacity leads to care with questionable benefits, will largely…

— Michael E. Porter

“Health care providers have an indispensable value to a communities quality of health.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“The failure of competition is evident in the large and inexplicable differences in cost and quality for the same type of care across providers…

— Michael E. Porter

“There are many reasons for increased spending on health care, including an aging population, technological change, perverse incentives, supply-induced demand, and fear of malpractice…

— William J. Baumol

“At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created.”

— Michael E. Porter

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further,…

— Alex Gibney

What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

— David Shulkin

“The pressures of the current neoliberal capitalist system of health care and its financing force health professionals into a double bind. Either they spend…

— Seth Holmes

Hospitals feel like they need to increase prices to make up for treating patients that don't pay their bills or that are not having…

— Mikhail Varshavski

“Consumers will only be able to play a bigger role in their care, and make better choices, if providers and health plans realign competition…

— Michael E. Porter

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are…

— Blanche Lincoln