"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."

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Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

— Ezekiel Emanuel