Quotes About Healthcare

Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue.

Voters have figured out Republicans want to save Medicare for the long term, and they know that those who say everything's just fine with it aren't leveling with them.

I have spent 40 years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first.

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.

There shouldn't be a barrier between rich and poor in terms of the kind of health care that they can access.

With today's technology, you can actually see the baby grow, move, and hear their little heart beats.

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

Well," he said, "the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient." There

Fading photographs on the corridor walls from the 1960s and 1970s showed children strapped to frightening-looking machines, wires dangling from their heads. They smiled at the camera in uncomprehending excitement as if they were at the beach.

Poor people smoked, poor people ate Krispy Kreme doughnuts by the dozen. Poor people were made pregnant by close relatives. Poor people practiced poor hygiene and lived in toxic neighborhoods. Poor people with their ailments constituted a subspecies of humanity that thankfully remained invisible to Gary except in hospitals and in places like Central Discount Medical.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI or orthopedic consult.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced.

So Medicare decided to pay hospitals like ours for internship and residency training programs, get it? It's a win-win, as they say—the hospital gets patients cared for by interns and residents around the clock,people like us who live on site, and whose stipend is a bloody fraction of what the hospital would pay full-time physicians. And Medicare delivers health care to the poor.

Luther did not believe that HIV was killing him. He believed that our inability to treat the symptoms that bothered him, our prescribing the wrong medications, was at the root of his problem. I almost believed him: Maybe if we could put together the right concoctions we could give him ten good years.

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.