Quotes About Healthcare

If you're going to have a lifesaving treatment, a curing treatment, but unaffordable, what's the use in having that treatment?

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

The main reason I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment abroad that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have access to.

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

I have to do two or three hours of treatments every day just to be able to step onto a tennis court.

As an emergency physician, I have seen my patients forgo needed treatment because they are afraid they will lose their jobs.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.

Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the system denies our humanity. It denies us patient care.

Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.

Health care in the United States is responsible for a tremendous amount of waste and a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. For every hospital bed, the American health care system produces about 30 pounds of waste every day; over all, it accounts for about 10 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions.

For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made, I feel that care drops off tremendously, even though it is precisely the time that a patient needs help the most, even if they are not verbalizing it.

Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.

President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn't happening.

ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.

I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.

All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.

In contrast to how tech firms want to disrupt and break things - developing drugs must be incremental and step-by-step. This is the kind of work that involves people putting their lives on the line every day with clinical trials.

I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.