Alan Brian Levine is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who currently pitches for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League.
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“We do want to move to a market-based system but understand it is a controlled market system.”
Alan Levine
“Col. Winslow and his team are doing heroic work treating not only the soldiers but also the Iraqi civilians and they don't have the tools they need to do that. They need our support and any way that we can help, we will.”
Alan Levin
“The Iraqis that Col. Winslow and the other doctors and nurses are treating will remember that help more than anything else, and that's important.”
“I didn't think he acted appropriately. Still don't.”
“The agency has to have some flexibility in terms of administration, ... The waiver is approved. It's a done deal.”
“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.”
“Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.”
“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.”
“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.”