One of our main objectives, really one of my main objectives in the Affordable Care Act, was to try to reorient our Nation's health care system so that we would reward quality over just quantity and try to improve health care outcomes while trying to get better outcomes for less money.
Senator Carper discusses goals of the Affordable Care Act regarding healthcare quality and cost.
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I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.
We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.
People ask me what I am proudest of in my life, and I always say, raising three boys, with a big assist from their mom.
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