Quotes About Healthcare

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.