Ira Byock
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629 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
Ira Byock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me tell you that when anybody comes with a bad problem and says we need to get Congress involved, my heart sinks.
You know, an angel dies somewhere.
And what we've done in the last since in the last
few months is um the academy uh and and knock and n hpc o and all that have written strong
Policy proposals to CMS and to Congress, Earl to Earl Blumenauer and others, which are all great.
Fab they really are.
Absolutely.
Everyone is great.
None of them obviate the field.
Clearly stating what quality looks like and when we should all be concerned that the hospice programs cannot deliver quality.
We could do that tomorrow.
Lauren, I'm gonna turn to your thoughts on that.
Morning.
Thank you very much.
Uh
You know, I was an early proponent of for profit um hospice care.
Um as somebody who has, you know, been part of m m literally more nonprofits than I can remember, non profits you know, governance structures is is a pain in the ass.
And it's very hard to go through a board of directors when you have to when you want to build something or invest something and it's very it's just hard to raise capital and you know, it's just hard management is hard.
So I
I was encouraged by uh the early uh for profits.
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