Quote by Michael Greger

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

— Dean Ornish

“Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.”

— Richard Diaz

“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

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get,…

— Rebecca Skloot

“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and…

— Michael Crichton

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the…

— Abraham Flexner

“I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.”

— Anonymous

“The medical profession is a money making con, they will keep you sick on a variety of expensive prescriptions and on a yo-yo into…

— Steven Magee

“No one would ever suggest that a report whose audience consists of medical doctors should avoid medical terminology that could not be understood by…

— Charles M. Fox

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

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

— John Ralston Saul