As consumers are being asked to pay more of the cost of healthcare services, they will increasingly demand more value and will also ask for more transparency and tools to determine the value they are receiving. Ron Williams Read Quote
A positive, high-performance culture can quickly turn negative if the CEO is not rigorous in constantly articulating values and holding people accountable for both results and values. Ron Williams Read Quote
Younger participants in the exchanges and who purchase individual insurance paid more, and they just didn’t see the value, and therefore, they did not come forward and sign up. Ron Williams Read Quote
In health care, you really need a balance of people who need health care today, tomorrow, and in the future. Ron Williams Read Quote
When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn’t. And what I’ve learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly involved in the world of private equity, points the way to a new career path for thousands of talented senior executives – and a new engine for value creation. Ron Williams Read Quote
After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld. Ron Williams Read Quote
The ACA’s reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed. Ron Williams Read Quote
The basic premise of insurance is the pooling of funds from many to cover the costs of some. There are complicated methods for how to do this, but one fact remains consistent: For insurance to work well, people need to be in and stay in the insurance pool. Ron Williams Read Quote
We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance. Ron Williams Read Quote
