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“There was a company that we fired that had billed us two hundred million dollars, not a single usable line of code”

“We're gonna actively and aggressively stop paying Medicaid if we can prove that states are not obliging their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.”

“Just LA County alone, just in hospice and home health care, we believe it's about three and a half billion dollars.”

“We've audited him now. This data's coming out this week. We have now found over one and a half billion dollars of money spent wrongly. We've audited it. They're not even arguing. One and a half billion dollars from that California charged the federal governmen…”

“So you can get the health care, like you do in socialized medicine countries, you just have to wait six months or a year or longer, or you don't get the care at all.”

“If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental, you don't get free vision. You do if you're an illegal immigrant in California.”

“Mayor Suarez in Miami dropped a number by 90% and he did it just by making sure that you got arrested every time you peed publicly and they don't put you in jail. They put you in, in rehab.”

“We had a rule that would reduce fraud, but the blue cities didn't like it because it was coming from someone they didn't like, the president, so they enjoined it, and that's now caught up in court.”

“We've just gotten the British to say yes, and other countries are talking to us about the fact that they pay .3%.”

“If you get cancer, more advanced cancers in Europe, your survival rate's way below the US. And if you don't get access to the drugs, which they don't for several years on average that we get in the US, yes, you can get it for cheaper, but your people are payin…”

“The large language models do better on board exams. So, they take general knowledge. They're better than a doctor. They're more patient than a doctor.”

“We took out, we took three billion dollars of cost out.”

“At that price, we will, within two years, return money to the American taxpayer.”

“Every Medicare patient gets it for 50 dollar copay. Every Medicaid patient gets it for nothing.”

“GLP-I ones, they're just the tip of the iceberg. There are more and more sophisticated ways for us to be able to address not just appetite, but addiction, addictive behavior drops at GLP-I ones. So new, the newer drugs are going to be even more effective at th…”

“There's actually 20 times more in South Florida than McDonald's.”

“We have seven times more hospice in California. Hospice is for people at the end of their life. Seven times more hospice than was there five, six, seven years ago.”

“The survival rate for most of these hospice centers is a hundred percent.”

“I'm gonna put a moratorium on some of these services. We're not gonna let new people sign up.”

“All you need to penetrate Medicare and Medicaid is a beneficiary number. They can buy those, and you're off to the races.”

“If you can get the average American to work one year longer, that is worth three trillion dollars to the US economy.”

“50% of our cortex, of our high cognitive function, 50% of it is to read your face.”

“If 20% of Americans do what you're saying, and they will, it would make all of medicine function better.”

“600 companies have signed a pledge agreeing to interoperability, data, transparency, and to build these tools for the American people to be able to use them.”

“Fifty billion dollars, the largest investment ever made in rural healthcare through our agency, was given up by the end of the calendar year.”

“We had nine engineers when we came in and all of CMS, our COBOL based infrastructure built in the seventies, where we don't have engineers that you're talking about in the department, you had nine engineers out of what's the denominator of employees? 6500 empl…”

“It is by federal law, mandated that if you give a patient a welfare program, SNAP, Medicaid, you must also give them the ability to sign up to vote.”

“We had a big fifteen billion dollar bust on these guys earlier in the year.”

“There's probably 10% of all home health care expense in America is in LA.”

“The more intelligent you are, the better you are to lying to yourself and others around you. Because you can construe almost any data into something that has, you know, a meaning that's not really there.”

“There are not enough GPs in America. We probably need two to three times more just to keep up with Europe.”

“The chance of a Medicaid patient who doesn't pay for their health care because they don't have the means to do it, the chance of them canceling their doctor's appointment is twice that of a Medicare patient.”

“Sixty million Americans living in rural America don't have access to mental health services.”

“The life expectancy in rural America, I'll go back to them, in vulnerable populations, nine years shorter than yours in the same country.”

“Don't bother fixing today's broken pipes if the world you're building doesn't have pipes.”

“We pay, in the United States.8% of our GDP towards pharmaceutical products.”

“It's less than 50%. Less than 50%. But most people don't do it.”

“Because 50% of what a doctor tells the patient is forgotten before the patient leaves the office.”

“We're also getting these companies to unshore their production facility.”