Quotes About Healthcare

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.

Healthcare is consistently the top issue that people talk to me about, and it continues to be one of my top priorities in Congress.

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and no one should go bankrupt trying to afford coverage.

I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, not something only the wealthiest 1 percent can afford it should have.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Health care has a lot of interesting machine-learning problems - outpatient outcomes, or when you have x-ray images and you want to predict things.

There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that.

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.

I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich to do such procedures.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Like many of you, I was very disappointed at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.