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Ron Williams
American
Businessman
Born:
1949
Care
Culture
Health
People
Positive
Value
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We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.
Ron Williams
People
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Moral
Healthcare
Get
Who
Need
What we need are different types of insurance, some of which have copays, some that have coinsurance, but they need to offer a better first layer of coverage.
Ron Williams
Better
First
Types
Some
Layer
Insurance
Coverage
Offer
Different
Which
Different Types
Need
I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process.
Ron Williams
Health
Constitution
Lawyer
Entire
Had
Major
Am
Reform
Process
Expert
Plan
CEO
Chairman
Seat
We must find a way to cover those who are no longer healthy but need care.
Ron Williams
Care
Healthy
Way
Those
Must
Find
Longer
Cover
Who
Need
The federal government should encourage rather than micromanage market reform in all 50 states. Since health care is local, private-sector innovation in conjunction with state-level reform of the individual and small-group markets is a better approach.
Ron Williams
Government
Health
Innovation
Better
Care
Approach
Local
Market
States
Markets
Rather
Individual
Federal
Federal Government
Since
Health Care
Encourage
Than
Reform
Should
Conjunction
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
Finance
Buy
People
Obligation
Try
Moral Obligation
Confuse
Our
System
Responsible
Moral
Through
Insurance
Fiscally
Provide
Which
Who
Services
Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.
Ron Williams
Innovation
Result
No Choice
Having
Performance
Improvement
Choice
In health care, you really need a balance of people who need health care today, tomorrow, and in the future.
Ron Williams
Today
Future
Health
You
Balance
People
Tomorrow
Care
Health Care
Really
Who
Need
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
Value
Sign
Purchase
See
More
Individual
Exchanges
Participants
Come
Insurance
Up
Did
Just
Younger
Paid
Who
Forward
Therefore
Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.
Ron Williams
Three
Every
Perfectly
Institution
Learned
Years
Forgetting
Capable
It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.
Ron Williams
Game
Difficult
Also
Against
Compete
Player
I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.
Ron Williams
People
Think
Enough
System
Some
Someone
Point
Could
Participate
Expected
Should
Reasonable
Agree
Income
In my career, there have been many things I am fortunate enough to be proud of. Yet one of the things I feel most strongly about is the culture we created during the ten years I was at Aetna, and its enduring impact.
Ron Williams
Culture
Enough
One Of The Things
Impact
About
Strongly
Ten
Ten Years
Feel
Most
Proud
Am
Been
Years
Enduring
Created
Fortunate
Many
Things
Career
As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.
Ron Williams
Enough
Caricature
Way
Destroy
Significant
Had
Bought
Equity
Private
CEO
Who
Companies
Exposure
Media
When I retired from Aetna, I became part of the private equity world. It turned out to be a natural fit.
Ron Williams
Natural
World
Out
Part
Retired
Became
Equity
Private
Fit
Turned
The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.
Ron Williams
Health
Political
Important
All Americans
Has-Been
Obamacare
Admirable
Step
Step Forward
Toward
Like
Known
Health Insurance
Access
Insurance
Important Step
Been
Goal
Providing
Political Process
American
Reforms
Problematic
Process
Forward
Many
King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA's most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.
Ron Williams
Best
Health
Challenge
King
Weakness
Directly
Pointed
Exchanges
Participation
Most
Health Insurance
Access
Insurance
Coverage
Goal
Effective
Did
Essential
Subsidy
Achieving
Means
Receiving
There are several problems with the ACA's reliance on means-based inclusion criteria and mandatory participation in exchanges - the complexity of the exchange mechanism, and the potential for income-based subsidies to become a disincentive to earn if insurance rates escalate for those beyond the income threshold.
Ron Williams
Problems
Threshold
Become
Mandatory
Earn
Several
Those
Complexity
Criteria
Reliance
Rates
Potential
Exchange
Exchanges
Participation
Beyond
Insurance
Subsidies
Mechanism
Inclusion
Income
I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.
Ron Williams
Seen
Patient
System
Angles
Healthcare
Many
Including
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
Positive
Culture
People
Negative
Values
Holding
Rigorous
Constantly
Both
Results
Accountable
Quickly
Articulating
Turn
CEO
Every morning, I have high expectations, and then I confront the reality of what happens at 4 o'clock.
Ron Williams
Morning
Reality
Every
High
High Expectations
Expectations
Happens
Confront
Then
I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.
Ron Williams
Positive
Culture
Strong
Values
Power
Believe
Begins
Which
Ethical
Core
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
Health
Reflection
Will
All Americans
Purchase
Individual
Federal
Health Insurance
Insurance
Concluded
Upheld
American
Mandate
After
Which
Much
Requires
Starting
Deliver bad news early and personally.
Ron Williams
News
Bad
Bad News
Deliver
Personally
Early
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