I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.
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Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
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.
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
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