Karen Ignagni Quotes (13 Quotes)

This new joint venture will provide people throughout the health care sector and beyond the opportunity to hear from the nation's leading thought leaders who are in the trenches shaping the health care system for America's future.

The Achilles heel here for the discussion is cost. What happens in terms of what working families are required to pay

Most people don't realize that every day women's lives are being saved and their quality of life improved because health plans have developed programs that safeguard women's health.

When you get out of Washington and listen to seniors, you learn that seniors are saving and that the vast majority are not experiencing problems.

That's a conversation that's proven to be an extremely difficult conversation, state by state and in Washington.

We share this goal of making sure that individuals receive value for their premiums, on the other hand, we're looking to see the impact of potentially unintended consequences of affordability and access,

This approach has rewarded the over-utilization and misuse of services and resulted in higher payments when health care complications arise.

I think everyone is surprised by the robustness of this number. We had a sense, but we had no data.

What we have here, I think, is quite a lot of noise with respect to this matter of clinical practice, who should decide, and what have you, ... but not enough information on the part of physicians and patients about how processes are actually working.

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

The payments from the government are not covering the cost of caring for this population group.

Access to an emergency room, if they reasonably believe they should go, they should go and be paid for appeals. Making sure that an individual that has a concern, a complaint, a grievance -- it needs to be handled expeditiously.

While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community's job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies, physicians and advocacy organizations to resolve any remaining transition issues.