Karen Davis Quotes (24 Quotes)

In the near future, our nation faces the daunting challenge of meeting the needs of growing numbers of older Americans including baby boomers nearing retirement age for nursing home, home health, and assisted living care. Healthcare leaders support strategies to spread these costs widely, rather than place the entire burden on individuals or families.

We've been talking too much about how much it costs to provide health insurance and not enough about what we lose as a country and as employers by having employees who are too sick to work.

Courses typically set their event schedule early in the year ... so calling the fall of the prior year or at least at the first of the year is important for any event, especially if it will be large and will close off the course. Almost all courses have a tournament package ... and some have sales directors to walk you through the process if they do lots of them. For most clubs, you'll go to the head pro.

The magnitude was surprising and we were fairly conservative in trying to estimate the economic cost of lost labor time.

We don't have in this report how much that would go down. It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke.

We are blessed to have Sally Hild back on staff. She not only brings an unbeatable skill set and sunny personality, but she has institutional knowledge.

We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively,

Your family at the bus barn will miss you. There will be a big void there without you on bus number 20.

The average premium for health insurance exceeds the annual income of a minimum wage worker.

I sound crazy, but I took a little small TV to work with me. It was heavy back then, but it was small and it would fit into a closet and I would bring it out at lunch and watch the show.

The jump in uninsured among those with modest incomes is alarming, particularly at a time when our economy has been improving. If we don't act soon to expand coverage to the uninsured, the health of the U.S. population, the productivity of our workforce, and our economy are at risk.

We have been deeply touched by the joy and sincere caring Give Kids The World provides for children and families when they need it most. We are honored to form this very special partnership with them.

High-deductible health plans, with or without health savings accounts, are being designed to try and control health care costs from the demand side, and they are really quite controversial at this point.

This was a group of families that didn't want to send their children off to a residential school, or have them sit in a corner all day and color.

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

You can't give it out to some and not others.

The Medicare drug benefit is a potentially important benefit for many of our most vulnerable Americans, particularly patients with low incomes, who are in poor health. It will be important to monitor whether low-income nursing home residents qualify for premium and cost-sharing subsidies.

Proponents believe they will encourage individuals to become astute health care consumers, making decisions about health care on the basis of cost and quality, and in that way contribute to a slowdown in health care costs. Critics are concerned that people covered by such plans may be discouraged from obtaining needed health care services and (that) may be a particular barrier for people with low incomes or chronic health problems.

We as a nation lose if workers aren't healthy, ... It's an investment in workers' health and productivity to make sure they get the medical care they need.

These findings provide evidence that high-deductible and consumer-driven plans may undermine the two basic purposes of health insurance to reduce financial barriers to needed care and protect against high out-of-pocket cost burdens for patients.

We enter projects every year but don't always have a winner. It's still a wonderful experience for the students.

Physician incomes have come down in the past year. Hospital incomes are down.

While some individuals think my office is just for the media and created by the media ... and think the laws are for the media and journalists, most of my inquiries and complaints come from members of the public.

Higher spending doesn't mean we receive more or better care. We simply pay more.