"If nothing changes, then nothing will change"

September 18, 2007

Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charlie Baker doesn’t think recent slate of reform proposals will accomplish much:

And hence, the conundrum. People want “reform” of the health care system, if you put it to them like that. They even like “fundamental reform.” But the minute someone starts to fundamentally change the way the system works for THEM “” as the provider, employer, consumer, health plan, broker, supplier, etc. “” they get up out of their chair and fight for the status quo.



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1 Anonymous September 18, 2007 at 4:05 pm

Exactly right.

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