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...huge amount of money and made people healthier and made sure that Medicare was solvent and bent the cost curve. I mean, there's 20, 25% of the cost - of the system that is wasteful right now, even before you get to tough decisions about end-of-life care...
...range of reasons why that might be true, but the point is, is that it's not like people out there are - would automatically be prevented from getting CAT scans if we just tried to think when is a CAT scan or an MRI working and appropriate in improving care and when...
...what we've said is that if doctors and patients had that information, and you start changing some of these delivery systems, you will see significant changes in the cost of health care and you will see improved outcomes and improved convenience, because if people are going through a battery of tests when one test would be sufficient, every time they're going to the doctor, that's gas, babysitting, sitting around for two hours, a day off work. We're not even factoring in those costs...
...went back and read your announcement speech again, and it struck me that even then - you brought up health care maybe three or four times, but you even then were framing it in - as a cost-containment issue, not just a coverage. In fact, you seem to be putting more emphasis on cost containment...
...hand. If we can't control costs, then we simply can't afford to expand coverage the way we need to. In turn, if we can expand coverage, that actually gives us some leverage with insurers or pharmaceutical industry or others to do more to help make the health care system more cost-effective...