Steven Burd Quotes

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

Steven Burd

• Quality
• Insurance
• Coverage

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

Steven Burd

• Country
• Health
• Insurance

People like to work for a winner.

Steven Burd

• People
• Work
• Winner

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

Steven Burd

• Technology
• Pressure
• Health care

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Steven Burd

• Done
• Challenging
• Communicating

We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

Steven Burd

• Care
• Insurance
• Incentive

If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

Steven Burd

• Name
• Customer
• Store

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

Steven Burd

• Work
• Interest
• Health care

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Steven Burd

• Health care
• Approach
• Volume

You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

Steven Burd

• People
• Need
• Emergency