Quotes About Healthcare

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Sport is a preserver of health.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".