Health Care System Quotes - Page 2

• Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.

  Julio Frenk

  Jobs, Healthy, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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• The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.

  Don Lemon

  Encounters, Care, Way

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• If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Best Practices, Risk

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• Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

  Shaffi Mather

  India, Care, Way

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• Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stress, Stupid, Silly

  "What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks of You" by Ken Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

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• There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

  Matthew Lesko

  America, Care, Advantage

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• With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

  Bob Filner

  Care, Site, Integrated

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• One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Romance, Cost

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• For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do.

  Chelsea Handler

  Gay, Thinking, Government

  "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

  Jim McDermott

  Struggle, Reality, Hysteria

  "Health Care Reform Benefits: Truth vs. Pure Politics" by Rep. Jim McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

  William H. Calvin

  Energy, Climate, Fuel

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.128, William H. Calvin

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.

  Stephen Harper

  Moving, Support, Way

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• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Running, Home, Needs

  "Global Motherhood: Birth Freedom or Birth Totalitarianism?" by Ina May Gaskin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Unique, Rich Countries

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba.

  Tom Gjelten

  Political, Subsidies, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What the Affordable Care Act started was a change in the American health care system from paying for procedures to paying for outcomes, paying for health. Other nations have already made that move. We pay for procedures and we get the best procedures in the world and we get the most procedures in the world, and then we spend a huge chunk of our GDP on health care, but we don't have the best outcomes.

  Tim Kaine

  Moving, Gdp, Outcomes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Cutting

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or as much as the population wants it to go, but to make it a little better and a little more affordable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Obamacare, Effort, Population

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  Bill Gates

  Broken, Income, Care

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• [Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Care, Health Care, Courses

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Suzanne Gordon (2012). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.19, Cornell University Press

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