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Phil Kerpen

President

American Commitment

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Notable quotes

  • We need people to control their own healthcare dollars. We want choice and competition.
  • Hospitals get a lot of explicit subsidies, but they also get a lot of implicit subsidies through barriers to entry.
  • Healthcare lobbyists spend about six times what defense industry lobbyists spend right now at the federal level.
  • The starting point was probably when Medicare and Medicaid were started in the '60s under Lyndon Johnson.
  • If we don't fix the drivers of this consolidation, what are you really gonna be choosing between?
  • We've gotta make it much, much easier to create an independent physician's practice, an imaging center, a surgical center, clinic, and a hospital.