Bill Clinton: Healthcare budget should be reprioritized – This & 2 other takeaways from his keynote at international healthcare summit

Former President Bill Clinton addressed the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit in London Feb. 24, speaking on some of the biggest issues in healthcare.

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Here are three notable quotes from Mr. Clinton’s keynote speech.

1. “I’ve lived long enough to know that in every endeavor there are no permanent victories and no permanent defeats. All there is, is the permanent gift of choice and life.”

2. “Everything we do gains more meaning when we give the simple gift of one more day to other people.”

3. “I think the healthcare budget should be organized around the biggest problems and the biggest opportunities. We’ve made some progress in this but if we look at other healthcare budgets, Medicare, Medicaid and the VA, they are largely organized to serve the street population. On the surface, that’s good. But if you know you’re missing the larger opportunities, for example, in premature hospital deaths, then I think we should do that.”

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