Am Quote by Mitch Kapor

Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.

— Richard Thaler

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

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

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs,…

— Robert Reich

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as…

— Atul Gawande

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the…

— Joe Baca

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions.…

— Peter Orszag

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

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between…

— Benjamin Carson

“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

Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“Nothing much will change until we pay doctors and hospitals when they appropriately do less as well as we do when they inappropriately do…

— Katy Butler