Alan Levine Quotations

Obviously, if everyone has contracted with the same ambulance service, there could be serious problems. We are in favor of requiring the county EOCs to review the nursing home plans not just individually, but how they connect and how much they depend on the same resources and whether that is viable.

Gold Standard was one of the best-led small companies I've ever worked with. Russ Thomas is a visionary.

Our goal was to get the hospital reopened.

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even move people to other homes he owned. But when it comes to patient safety, it's nonnegotiable.

We do want to move to a market-based system but understand it is a controlled market system.

Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.

Transparency in waiting times is much more relevant in an emergency. It's more important than infection rates.

Those changes failed to pass the legislature last year. We're hopeful they will pass this year, given our knowledge of the problems posed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Those who want to defend the current system are defending the indefensible. Only 4 percent of all women in the Medicaid fee-for-service program are getting mammograms. That's absurd. That's not a successful system, that's a failure.

When you look at the numbers, you clearly see that there's going to be a great demand in this state for long-term care services, and we have got to get the costs under control.

After conferring with Gov. Bush, I have directed Florida Medicaid to ensure each of Florida's most vulnerable has the best access to the medications they depend on.

This partnership demonstrates how health status can be improved through education, coordination of care and by involving the consumer in decision-making. The bottom line is this program has shown measurable results, which is why this model is the fundamental basis for Florida's Medicaid reform effort. I congratulate the health care professionals who are making it a success.

The agency has to have some flexibility in terms of administration, ... The waiver is approved. It's a done deal.

Chase concocted the fraud with Enron. Chase was right in bed with Enron to structure these transactions to hide Enron's debt,

You've got to believe you can do it.