Medicare

“Medicare announced recently that their goal is to have 80% of payments in risk models by 2018 and that they're moving forward with new types of payment models like bundle payments”

“Ironically, it is to the point where the government run part of healthcare, in this case, actually Medicare, tends to be on the cost side, at least, more efficient than the commercial part of healthcare.”

“It's a shit show. You know, you don't need, you know, all these, building all these new buildings and buying all this real estate, and there's no, you know, lying about your cost to do something. Oh, our Medicare, you know, we provide Medicare. We lose eight, …”

“Now, again, you know, unfortunately, I would predict that they're not going to do that because it's a political third rail and it requires, you know, Courage and other things to go into it.”

“And you go, well, look, there's a whole bunch of money that's spent on these last three to six months of life. Let's reduce the spending on that and say that is not a public, you know, a public expense. And let's increase, like, for example, preventative and o…”