“When medicine became a business then we lost our moral compass.”

DR. STEVEN NISSEN, CHAIRMAN OF CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC

We pay more, yet our health outcomes are worse. We give well-intentioned doctors, nurses, and hospitals the wrong tools and the wrong incentives, and it results in higher costs and poorer health. Who pays for this waste and excess? All of us – through higher premiums and taxes. The first step in fixing the system is understanding that the status quo is out of control and, as Dr. Andrew Weil says, “bringing us down.”

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