Quotes About Healthcare

If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political will, determination and imagination. Providing health care for all of our citizens requires the same force of will.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Michael had a very low pain tolerance, and his fear of pain was incredible. And I think that doctors took advantage of him that way.

I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel."

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

30. Killing season as it's known in the UK or the July effect as it's known in the U.S. is used to describe the time around July and August when newly qualified doctors first begin their residencies.

ICU seems to be staffed by good, smart young docs who think they know everything, and wise RN's who really do.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some forty million Americans, nearly one in seven of us, are suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder at any given time, accounting for 31 percent of the expenditures on mental health care in the United States.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

The people have an incentive to spend wisely. So the health care savings accounts are such a good thing. It's such a good idea. And it's time for it.

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.