House M.D. (TV Series)

5 to 9 (2010)

Anthony Tyler Quinn: Eli Morgan

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Eli]  So you guys ready to give some ground so we can make this deal?

  Eli Morgan : Why would we do that?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : We've been going at this for eight months.

  Eli Morgan : Soon as you decide to get reasonable.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I'm the one that's unreasonable? You've taken weeks to respond to every proposal I've presented.

  Eli Morgan : Atlanticnet Insurance is the largest healthcare provider in New Jersey and you're not the only hospital whose contracts are up. So is your team ready to come back to the table?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Yeah. We're not going to.

  [hands him a file] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : This is our final offer. We're willing to go with a capitated structure, but we need at least 12% increase in reimbursements across the board.

  Eli Morgan : Well, the good news is I can give you a quick response. Not a chance. But as always, nice talking to you. Say hi to your sister for me.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : If you don't accept the offer, we're gonna terminate the contract.

  Eli Morgan : Gonna be hard to keep this place open if all your patients have to pay cash. Princeton Plainsboro is the smallest hospital in our entire network.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : We're also the best.

  Eli Morgan : Doesn't matter. We are responsible for covering 13 million people. We don't have enough cash to buy them all Maseratis.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I know what you paid Bergen, Newark Beth Israel, Robert Wood Johnson...

  Eli Morgan : 'Cause they have leverage. You can be expensive or small, but you can't be both.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I've engaged Jones/Curtin to handle the PR and I'm prepared to make the announcement at 3:00 p.m. today.

  Eli Morgan : First lesson every good poker player learns is don't get emotional. You don't have the cards and the sooner you realize that, the sooner a reasonable contract will get signed.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You have until 3:00 p.m. to change your mind.

  Eli Morgan : I always did like your style. Gonna be sad to see you go.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Eli]  I want 12.

  Eli Morgan : You're not gonna get 12. There's just no way.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : 8% barely covers our cost inflation.

  Eli Morgan : But capitated structure should allow you to hold down inflation.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : And shifts all your risk onto us which is why we deserve 12.

  Eli Morgan : Lisa, come on. The guy who mows my lawn makes more than my kid's teacher. Hell, the two guys whose lunch you interrupted could get fired and their severance would be more than most of their employees make in a lifetime. It doesn't have anything to do with what you deserve. This is it. Take it or leave it.