07/06/2011
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"It makes it very hard to reach civil penalties and apply them to serious misbehavior, does it not?"
"Under the Republican plan, healthcare costs would rise which turns Medicare over to private insurance that have higher administrative costs and profits, is that right?"
"We need people who are the best and the brightest in the healthcare sector who understand the economics as well as the clinical realities."
"I don't believe the way it is currently constructed the IPAB will recruit the kind of people that we want."