Quotes About Healthcare

Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

…all that goes under the name of science is not necessarily scientific, and that all that goes under the name of health-care will not necessarily care for your health.

Health is wealth but wealth is not health

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.

If WHO statistics were to be believed, the U.S. had the worst maternal mortality in the industrialized world.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

We've been involved in public policy debates long enough to know that when someone is losing an argument based on the facts, they try to change the subject. Thus liberals' hysterical reaction to the rising public opposition to their hostile government reboot of the American health care system. Thus Democrats' hostile attacks on the citizens who overwhelmed congressional town hall meetings over the August recess. It was "un-American.