So the only way that we can initiate true health care reform is if we control costs.
What others in the Senate and the House want are ways that we can control and contain costs for health care.
My focus now is on analyzing the data, not just providing it based on the data, for instance, how can we increase revenue or control costs?
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If we can get control of health care costs as a whole, then we can start bending the curve of costs for Medicare and Medicaid.
We've got to control costs, both for families and businesses, but also for our government.
So even if you've got health insurance reform, we've got to control costs over the long term.
Given that the sunk costs are, well, sunk, the only thing that we can control about the mission going forward is future costs.
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So, it's essential that we get health care costs under control by wringing out the waste in the system.
Our long-term deficit, if we can't control health care costs -- I don't care who's talking about eliminating waste from the government, we can't solve the problem.
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And let me repeat this principle: If we don't get control over costs, then it is going to be very difficult for us to expand coverage.
"We believe in continuous improvement to control costs, " he says.
Talking to the CEO of Southwest Airlines, they estimate that if we put in the new generation of GPS air traffic control, we would save 15 percent in fuel costs.
Nobody can dispute the fact that if we don't tackle surging health care costs, that we can't get control of our budget.
Most of us in the IT business have also been customers at one time or another, so we understand the desirability to hold costs under control.
You project out 20-30 years -- almost all the growth is because health care costs are just going out of control and we've got an older population that's going to need more care.
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Having been badly burned by uncontrolled growth in costs in Tennessee's Medicaid program (TennCare once gobbled up a third of the state's budget), we proceeded cautiously with CoverTN and have been rewarded with good control of costs.
So there are ways that we can streamline the system that will reduce costs, and that will help control costs not just in the private sector, but also for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
"We cannot continue down the same dangerous road we've been traveling for so many years with costs that are out of control, because reform is not a luxury that can be postponed, but a necessity that cannot wait, " Obama said.
The key to bringing U.S. health care costs under control is not cutting back on the quality of care but changing the way we finance care.
Because as much as I would like to believe that the results are due to good government or the private markets making some sort of change to bring down the out-of-control advancement in the costs of medical care, I know very well that the real reason we spent less is because we simply had less to spend.
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And we agree on the dire need to wring out waste, fraud and abuse and get control of skyrocketing health care costs.
The problem is that Congress, in my opinion, has been so politicized by these agencies that they didn't develop even a basis of a new system of running these agencies, a much more demanding system in which we could control to a much better way, for example, the amount of leverage they have, and their costs can also be controlled much better.
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