Frans van Houten Quotes

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

I want to drive down health care costs.

I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.