Quotes About Healthcare

I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.

When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.

We must start 24/7 ERs dedicated to addiction and mental health.

Attorney General Becerra was the leading force behind the lawsuit to protect the Affordable Care Act. Yes, he had the audacity to maintain protections for people with pre-existing conditions and for those suffering from mental illness.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.

Helping women make informed decisions about the best contraceptive methods for their families would also help us ensure that more infants are celebrating their first birthdays.

Michigan is a state that wants access for women to healthcare.

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

Some countries that I go to are still trying to deny that it's happening. In India, 2.1 million people are living with HIV AIDS. India manufactures most of the drugs that are used to cure HIV around the world, which is an amazing, amazing fact that most people don't know.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

America is the only developed country in the world that doesn't recognize healthcare as a human right, the only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access to affordable healthcare, and the only country in the developed world that has, since its founding, continuously enslaved and legally oppressed and disenfranchised a large minority of its population because of their race.