10/09/2013
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"Medicare, as a result was spending $17 billion a year on these hospital re-admissions that could have been prevented."
"At the heart of this reform, in many ways, is an attempt, a rare attempt to actually change the incentive structures so that we can deliver higher quality at a lower cost."
"One of the things I learned during the health care debate was that, because of the way the incentive structure worked, one out of every five Medicare beneficiaries that went to the hospital were re-ad..."
"Look, if we don't save the money that we are committed to save, that we have said we would save, that we will look at it again as a Congress and make sure we have those savings."