Blues CEO Dan Loepp Talks Health Care Costs, Quality and Accountability on WJR’s Paul W. Smith Show
Sven Gustafson
| 2 min read
Blue Cross made its presence felt at the Crain’s Health Care Leadership Summit in Detroit on Thursday. Daniel J. Loepp, president and CEO, delivered the welcoming address and earlier stopped by the WJR-AM radio booth for a live interview with host Paul W. Smith to talk about health care reform, partnering to lower costs and improve the quality of care and other topics in the news. A snippet:
Smith: We don’t know for sure the impacts of reform but we do know that there’s an opportunity to make health care work better for everyone. We need to save costs, save money, but we also need to make sure that the quality of care is there.
Loepp: Absolutely, and I think the two words that come to mind for me, and you and I have talked often about this, is accountability and responsibility, I think both on the provider’s side, the insurer’s side and the subscriber’s side. People taking care of themselves, paying attention to their health, best practices by hospitals and physicians and insurance companies. And if we can do that and we continue to talk—I was up in Marquette on Monday, I spoke to the economic club—talking about collaboration and when we do collaborate with each other and we’ve done that with the hospitals and the docs, we’re seeing savings in Michigan because of that and I think that’s part of what we’re going to talk about today.
Listen here: Paul W Smith Broadcast with Dan Loepp
