Quotes About Healthcare

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

More recently, progressives have fought for abortion rights, universal health care, strong environmental laws to combat climate change, equal rights for gay and transgender Americans, gun safety laws, consumer protections, and a ban on political contributions from corporations.

Fundamentally, special-interest Washington does not understand—or care to understand—collective bargaining: that workers give up wages today so that they can provide for their health care and a secure retirement; those were the legacy costs that Republican senator after Republican senator criticized.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, or our doctors, have done wrong.

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?

Botched abortions are the largest single cause of death of pregnant women in the United States, particularly among nonwhite women. In 1964, the president of the New York County Medical Society, Dr. Carl Goldmark, estimated that 80 percent of the deaths of gravid women in Manhattan were from this cause.

I just want you to listen to what I have to say, for not every doctor likes to listen to his patients.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

The couple had only lived a short while in that village, and they were poor as rats. Leonarda's husband bought damaged cigarettes, personally extracted his own teeth, ate meat and polenta twice a week, drank mate from an earthenware mug, never took his wife to the movies, and when she was ill he took her to a veterinarian.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. "Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

I was the first one to come up with a workable pitch: a vaccine, a real vaccine for rabies. Thank God there is no cure for rabies. A cure would make people buy it only if they thought they were infected. But a vaccine! That's preventative! People will keep taking that as long as they're afraid it's out there!

War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times.

The emotional journey has been as hard as the physical one. The fear I feel, in combination with busy doctors who don't have time to listen, has really affected me.

I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!

ObamaCare is, really, I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery - and it is slavery, in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government. It was never about health care; it was about control .

Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security, "free" health care, and "free" education and indoctrination of children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.

we lose tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid fraud every year. This is something we have not been able to control, either because we don't care very much and view other issues as much more important, or because we are incompetent

If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to put an end to waste and fraud throughout the government, and we must create a friendly climate for economic growth.

Why is tort reform not included in the health-care bill?" "It's really quite simple," he replied. "The Trial Lawyers Association gives us [the Democratic Party] a great deal of money, and they don't want it in there.

With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.