Health System Quotes

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  America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  Walter Cronkite

  Health, Caring, America

  "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hard Work, Healthy, Benefits

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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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• The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

  Steve Forbes

  Real, Government, Care

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

  Tom Harkin

  America, Prevention, Care

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• Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

  Christiane Northrup

  Life, Body, Know How

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• Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

  Joycelyn Elders

  People, Community, Empowerment

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• I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.

  Richard Di Natale

  Class, Weather, Issues

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Girl, Health, Impact

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• Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

  Margaret Chan

  Keys, Development, Outbreaks

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they won't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.

  Martin Schulz

  Health, Salary, Down And

  "EU warns of Armageddon if Greek voters reject terms" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Men, Needs

  "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Ange" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.

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• Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.

  Julio Frenk

  Tools, Violence, Arena

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Suicide, Looks, Mental Health

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• America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

  Mark Steyn

  Running, Philosophical, Hockey

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• The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Drug Use, Finals, Mental Health

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Quality, Reform, Benefits

  "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

  Eric Idle

  Government, California, Feelings

  "This much I know: Eric Idle" by John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• We're not going to have you burdening the health system.

  Barack Obama

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• The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

  Paul Farmer

  Competition, Want, Resources

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

  Margaret Chan

  Mother, Children, Impact

  "WHO director general Margaret Chan says fight for global health on all fronts" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2011.

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• From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Issues, Important

  Interview With Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Army, Russia

  "Gorbachev: Soviet Union 'should have been preserved'". Interview with Louise Branson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 5, 2006.

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• our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  School, Government, Law

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