Quotes About Healthcare

Healthcare for all is a central part of any biblically informed pro-life agenda.

In the richest nation on earth, good healthcare for everyone should be a basic demand of all Christians who respect the sanctity of every human life.

Não existem patriotas em filas de hospitais.

Simão Bacamarte entendeu desde logo reformar tão ruim costume; pediu licença à câmara para agasalhar e tratar no edifício que ia construir todos os loucos de Itaguaí e das demais vilas e cidades, mediante um estipêndio, que a câmara lhe daria quando a família do enfermo o não pudesse fazer.

Finally, the study observes, "health care organizations…are controlled by powerful, producer-led interests. The dominant position of health care corporations and professionals gives them the political and economic clout to block changes" that would reduce their power and make them more accountable "even in the face of pressure from government, patients and the media." A second study published

whenever he goes to the doctor's office is that forty cents of every health-care dollar goes to either fraud or waste.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. (If you mention anything about me, she said, tell people that.)

I believe that the emergency room policy in which saying "I have had severe psychotic depression exacerbated by extreme pain" is treated much the same as saying "I have to have a woolly teddy bear with me before you can use sutures" is unacceptable.

An untreated severe cleft palate can have dire consequences and is undeniably a disability. But there is no simple equation whereby the existence of the fix means that the condition is no longer a disability; rectifying a condition is not the same thing as forestalling

Given the magnitude of the real problems that confront us—terrorism, nuclear proliferation, the spread of infectious disease, failing infrastructure, lack of adequate funds for education and health care, etc.—our war on sin is so outrageously unwise as to almost defy rational comment.

President Bush recently decided to cut off funding to any overseas family-planning group that provides information on abortion.

Ah, it's a tough case: the only relief for her dementia is dialysis, but the thing that keeps her from signing for dialysis is her dementia. A real tough TURF.

LAWS OF MAN'S 4TH BEST HOSPITAL Learn your trade, in the world. Isolation is deadly; connection heals. Connection comes first. Use the "we." It's not just what we do; it's what we do next. It's not that we do what we think we can get; it's what we dare to do together. Without health-care workers, there's no health care. Squeeze the money out of the machines. Put the human back in medicine. Stick together, no matter what.

El negocio de la clínica no era curar a la gente de sus males, sino esculcarla hasta encontrarle nuevas cosas que curar.

Treatment for malignancies had become only a little better than the tortures of a CIA black site.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

Market failure isn't an intellectual curiosity. In many areas of the economy, such as health care, high technology, and finance, it is endemic.