billfinger:

- Zoe Strauss

In the current health care system, you’re not paid to keep people healthy. If you’re a complex patient with a range of problems, it doesn’t fit into the world [of primary care visits.] You needs a project manager — a whole team to take you under their wing and see you through this course of illness. What [Brenner’s] creating is the system as it should be.

— Atul Gawande, talking about Dr. Jeff Brenner, who is working to lower health care costs in Camden, New Jersey by targeting the chronically ill.