"Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others"
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Raines’s intent is managerial empathy with an edge: he’s not sentimentalizing government; he’s warning that policy change has supply-chain effects. Notice the careful specificity of “providers” and the quick inventory of “hospitals and doctors and others.” This is the language of an executive and a policy operator, someone translating macro decisions into institutional stress tests. He’s also preemptively rebutting the classic austerity dodge that trims “waste” without touching care. By naming providers, he highlights the intermediary layer where cuts often land first - reimbursement rates, staffing, closures - before they show up as longer waits, fewer beds, or entire counties without obstetrics.
The subtext is political insulation and moral leverage at once: if you vote to cut, you’re not cutting a line item, you’re squeezing local hospitals and the clinicians voters trust. It’s a rhetorical move that drags fiscal debate out of the spreadsheet and into the emergency room, where “reductions” stop sounding responsible and start sounding risky.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Raines, Franklin. (2026, January 16). Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-now-and-theres-for-every-dollar-the-84093/
Chicago Style
Raines, Franklin. "Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-now-and-theres-for-every-dollar-the-84093/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-now-and-theres-for-every-dollar-the-84093/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
