“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.” MenGivingWhitePoorDealsMillionsRichTeacherSecurityHe ManCitizensCostProtectStandardsWorkersStrikesIncomeHardestSavingMinistersSoarInflationSavingsHoodWidowsCollarsRobinsStandards Of LivingThriftRobin HoodWhite CollarCost Of Living Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.” NeedsBelieveMatterFacesStrongNationsSoundEconomySecurityPolicyCostDollarsSecureSavingCrucialInflationRenewalUrgentSavingsAmerican FamilyWitheringCost Of LivingInsurance PolicyLife Insurance Policy Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.” CostSavingReceivingSavingsOutsourcingCost Savings Author:Gerald Chertavian
“By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.” EnergyOur LivesHugeCostPercentSavingSavings Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic.” PeopleKnowsWellsCareRoomsFiveFeetStupidCostAccountsTake CareManageSavingEmergenciesSavingsClinicEmergency RoomUlcersSavings Accounts Author:Benjamin Carson
“There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.” YearsHomeTodayEnergyInterestPayCuttingWonderfulCostTenLowsYears AgoBillsSavingEfficientVehicleElectricLoanSavingsFinancingElectric Vehicles Author:Mark Ruffalo
“It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.” EnoughTurnsEnergyPayEconomyCostGreenSavingTransitionSavingsGreen Energy Author:Jill Stein
“Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.” EnoughCareEnergyPayHalfCostGreenDecadesSavingHealth CareFuelTransitionPollutionFossilsSavingsFossil FuelEliminatingGreen EnergyGreening Author:Jill Stein
“There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.” EnoughFactsShowsMovingEnergyPayStudyCostCreatingDollarsCleanBillionsSavedSavingDietsSavingsRenewable EnergyClean Energy Author:Jill Stein
“This is another area in which savings can also be moved from wasteful - like the F-35 weapons system that will cost us $1.5 trillion by the time it's done and it's obsolete, you know, it's a weapons system - as well as this global military infrastructure, which is unlike anything the world has ever known at any time.” KnowsWorldWellsDoneKnownMilitaryCostWeaponsAreasMovedSavingInfrastructureSavingsObsolete Author:Jill Stein
“The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsCareMillionsProgressCostRateSavingHealth CareFundLowestSavingsObamacareAffordableUndoneMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Care CostsTrust Funds Author:Barack Obama