03/13/2012
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"Today only 11 cents of every health care dollar is paid for directly by the patient; 89 percent is either paid by government or insurance, the third-party payer."
"I always look at this as one of the root causes of our problems is we have separated the consumer of the product from the direct payment of the product."
"I think our focus as we move forward has to be on gross premiums."
"We are going to be paying out $18 trillion more in benefits to Social Security than we bring in through the payroll tax."