We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.
An enormous piece of the cost in our health care system today is driven by lifestyle decisions, and so we all have an effort to do better.
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
We need more access to quality health care, not less.
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.