Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I was going to talk about small business lending and some ideas about how to get our economy moving again. I feel compelled to say something. I had the privilege of visiting, almost a year ago, the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic is one of a number of well-known, highly respected health delivery systems in this country--the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, which is in Pennsylvania, Intermountain up in Utah, Kaiser Permanante out in northern California, and several others. They have demonstrated the ability to provide better care for less money. Think about that. Better care, better outcomes, for less money. Their reputation is well known in this country, along with Mayo and some of the others I have mentioned. So I had an opportunity to go visit, go along with a member of my staff, Racquel Russell. We went and spent a day and actually stayed into the evening. It was so fascinating. What we learned was that if we look at the health care delivery systems, including the Cleveland Clinic I just mentioned, try to look and drill down on why they are able to provide better health care, better outcomes for less money, they have a lot of things in common with one another. I want to mention some of them. They focus on primary care, access to primary care. They like to catch problems when they are small, easy to repair, easy to cure.…”