Quotes About Healthcare

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.

We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part," Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

I was working second shift and weekends, never seeing my children, and I felt like I was selling my soul to the devil for health insurance and paid vacations.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

What is even more remarkable is the fact that as late as 1923, an American medical textbook advocated bleeding for treating certain infectious diseases, such as pneumonia!

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

Every physician in practice has experienced the phenomenon of patients who die from their diagnosis.

To place patients of different illnesses in the same ward is to use people to kill each other. approx quote, possibly on L Hotel Dieu in Paris.

that these people were supposed to know what they were doing, so I went along with their treatment. I didn't know what else to do. It was a very renowned hospital.

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

10. Medicaid patients who bitch about $1 copay, then go up front and buy cigarettes & beer.

Big Pharma prefers the model of mail order pharmacy where prescription drug orders are filled the same way that Amazon.com fills orders for books. To

societal bias also impacts the standard of living by creating disparities in education, employment, and health care (J. M. Jones, 1997; Sue, 2010). Although people of color see the election of Barack Obama as a major milestone in the history of the United States, their lived realities continue to indicate that racism, bias, and discrimination are alive as well. It frustrates them that their White brothers and sisters are unable to see the world through realistic lenses.

Right now, doctors can test for about 2, 500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.