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Quotes About System

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?
~ Lewis Black
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
~ H. L. Mencken
People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.
~ George W. Bush
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
~ Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
~ Cliff Stearns
It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
~ Alan K. Simpson
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
~ Jerrold Nadler
Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.
~ Rush Limbaugh
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
~ Arnold Kling
I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.
~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
~ James Surowiecki
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
~ Margaret Chan
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.
~ Marcia Angell
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
~ Barack Obama
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.
~ Paul Farmer
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
~ Michael Moore
The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.
~ Paul Ryan
Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.
~ Corrine Brown
I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.
~ Barack Obama
We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.
~ Wendell Potter
Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.
~ Dick Taylor
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
~ Edward Kennedy
Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.
~ Dennis Kucinich