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  • A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.

    Barack Obama's remarks Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at the South Court Auditorium in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 25, 2015.
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