Quotes About Healthcare

The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection.

Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.

We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

The skyrocketing costs of insulin are simply unaffordable for too many Maine families, and no one should be forced to choose between life-saving medications and essentials like groceries or clothes for their kids.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it didn't even use it because their premiums were high. Their deductibles were high. Their copays were high.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.

People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.