Quotes About Healthcare

The total cost was $4 billion for 100 million additional Pfizer doses.

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

The lawn was white with doctors.

Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody—about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.

According to their filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, most for-profit insurance companies maintain a medical loss ratio of about 80 percent, which is to say that 20 cents of every dollar people pay in premiums for health insurance doesn't buy any health care.

Some are rich, some are poor. Some are beautiful, some aren't. Some are brilliant, some aren't. But when we get sick - then everybody is equal. Everybody must have equal right to the best medical treatment we can provide. That is the basic rule of French health care. Surely, that's the basic rule of health care in every country. -pg 64

The notion that government has to create a mechanism to provide medical care for all who are sick was born in the late 19th century in the very heart of Europe, in a newly created nation called German. - pg 55

Switzerland, and the Netherlands, any resident can choose any insurance plan on the market—and change to a new plan on short notice. That's a wider choice of health insurance than any American has.

We've wasted our shining medical assets because of a health care payment system—or, more precisely, a crazy quilt of several overlapping and often conflicting systems—that prevents millions from receiving the treatment they need and that undermines the quality of care for millions more.

The shortcomings of our system can be grouped into three basic problems: coverage, quality, and cost.

But out of twenty-three wealthy countries, the American health care system ranks dead last when it comes to keeping newborns alive.

It's the age of managed care. These places usually manage not to care one second longer than they have to.

Remember that if you itemize your taxes, any amount above 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income (AGI) that you spend on health care qualifies for an additional tax deduction!

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. [...] In other words, care for the sick is an economic burden only in health care systems where profit is the bottom line and public services are underfunded and politically unsupported - that is, systems in which only market logic is considered legitimate.

We remain fully committed to introducing a cap on social care costs.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Federal research dollars invested at the National Institutes of Health seem expensive until we factor in the economic growth and jobs created by our world-leading life sciences industry.

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

There are a lot of positives things coming out of Israel, whether it's the stent that was manufactured by an Israeli company for heart disease, or the chip in your phone or the drop irrigation system that has helped farmers all over the world to grow crops... the list goes on and on.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up.