Comments on: VIDEO: BERWICK DENOUNCES FREE MARKET http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt Horn CBC http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461477 Matt Horn CBC Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:00:07 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461477 I was merely pointing out that you were wrong on the executive salaries adding in any significant way to the cost of healthcare in the US. I was merely pointing out that you were wrong on the executive salaries adding in any significant way to the cost of healthcare in the US.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461439 Marc Brown Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:45:04 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461439 Matt, the IHI is an independent nonprofit agency - there is no stock. It employs 110 people and receives grants and fees for its work. It is not a large organisation. I also see that the large sum Berwick and others 'received' in the last year was actually mostly the way seven years' pension monies are rolled up and reported. Matt, the IHI is an independent nonprofit agency – there is no stock. It employs 110 people and receives grants and fees for its work. It is not a large organisation. I also see that the large sum Berwick and others ‘received’ in the last year was actually mostly the way seven years’ pension monies are rolled up and reported.

]]> By: Matt Horn CBC http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461433 Matt Horn CBC Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:01:13 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461433 Silly statement Marc. Take the McGuire item a few years ago with UHG. The estimates were that he was taking $1bn in stock sales. Let's say he took 1bn from the company and not the market. That would have an impact on the capitalization in UHG of .16%. I don't think a one time reduction of .16% is really even a blip on the radar of health care costs, and that is the most egregious example I know of taken to the extreme. Silly statement Marc. Take the McGuire item a few years ago with UHG. The estimates were that he was taking $1bn in stock sales. Let’s say he took 1bn from the company and not the market. That would have an impact on the capitalization in UHG of .16%. I don’t think a one time reduction of .16% is really even a blip on the radar of health care costs, and that is the most egregious example I know of taken to the extreme.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461429 Marc Brown Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:05:13 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461429 He's left the IHI and it is not a private firm so he has no conflict on investments. I'll agree that his salary and those of others looked on the high side but if the IHI was providing great value I'm sure you'd be the first to say he should have been well rewarded. And as I've said before the compensation packages for American healthcare bosses is way higher than in Europe which obviously adds to your very high costs. He’s left the IHI and it is not a private firm so he has no conflict on investments. I’ll agree that his salary and those of others looked on the high side but if the IHI was providing great value I’m sure you’d be the first to say he should have been well rewarded. And as I’ve said before the compensation packages for American healthcare bosses is way higher than in Europe which obviously adds to your very high costs.

]]> By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461416 Catron Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:07:59 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461416 It would appear that the free market is where the good doctor <a href="http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/08/donald-berwicks-conflicts-of-interest/" rel="nofollow">cleans up</a> while making speeches about "the darkness of private enterprise." Another "progressive" hypocrite. How unusual! It would appear that the free market is where the good doctor cleans up while making speeches about “the darkness of private enterprise.”

Another “progressive” hypocrite. How unusual!

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461414 Marc Brown Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:55:26 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/07/video-berwick-denounces-free-market/#comment-461414 This comes from a talk two years on the NHS's 60th birthday. I don't understand why in any case you'd expect someone tasked with running a federal program to instead junk it for the 'free market', whatever that is. You yourself are on record as saying you would not disband Medicare. This comes from a talk two years on the NHS’s 60th birthday. I don’t understand why in any case you’d expect someone tasked with running a federal program to instead junk it for the ‘free market’, whatever that is. You yourself are on record as saying you would not disband Medicare.

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