Everything Dr. Clay Johnston said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Johnston: Cuba has better average health outcomes than the US
“Even Cuba has better health outcomes than we do.”
Johnston: Established Healthcare Organizations Cannot Be Reformed from Within
“You can't take an established organization and really move it forward. It really does involve training differently, but also setting up healthcare differently.”
Dr. Johnston: Over 50% of Doctor Time Is Spent Generating Bills
“So if you look at a doctor's time, so again, doctors are only a small part of how health is determined, but they're important. You know, more than 50% of that is spent documenting in order to improve a bill and the outcome of a bill. I mean, the predominant re…”
Johnston: U.S. Patients Pay More for Lower Quality Healthcare
“It's the opposite today. So you pay more for bad quality today.”
Johnston: Almost every country beats US in health per dollar spent
“So if you just, so first of all, if you just look at countries that do better in terms of productivity, you know, health per dollar spent, It's every other country almost in the world.”
Johnston: Insurer Found Redesigned Musculoskeletal Care Cut Costs by 80%
“But we met recently with an insurer that we had been working with, or they were sending patients to us, and they told us that in fact we were wrong, that we were saving them 80% on their costs. Yeah. For musculoskeletal care.”
Johnston: Only half of patients take prescriptions as prescribed after three months
“Only half of people are taking their prescription as prescribed three months after that prescription was written.”
Johnston: Healthcare measures productivity by revenue rather than delivering health outcomes
“The system is not built to deliver the outcomes that you're talking about a productivity, the productivity ought to be around delivering more health, right? That should be what we're, But it's not what it's doing. It's productivity around health care. From the…”
Johnston: Fitbits Work for People Who Buy Them, Not Those Given Them
“You know, like Fitbits work for people who buy them, but not for people who are given them who need them.”
Johnston: Remove bad-behavior incentives before paying people for healthy ones
“I think there's a lot of room to do, to take away the incentives that we're already providing for bad behaviors before we try to pay people for better behaviors.”
Dr. Johnston: Left Academia Because Healthcare Must Be Solved by Private Sector
“I wouldn't have left academia if I didn't think that this had to be solved in the private sector.”
Johnston: Conflicting Austin and Texas State Policies Made COVID-19 Response Hard
“I mean, I would say it's easy to stick with the evidence and that's where, you know, you can always be pretty comfortable, but even in stating the evidence, it became such a politicized issue, particularly in Austin, Where you had a city that was taking differ…”
Dr. Johnston: Only 60% of US Hypertension Patients Receive Adequate Treatment
“Maybe it's now 60% of people with hypertension, this thing that we've known about forever, right? That cost pennies to treat. Only, you know, 60% of them actually have it adequately treated in the United States.”
Dr. Clay Johnston
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