Healthcare Quotes

• If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.

  Chris Viehbacher

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

  Rick Scott

  Cutting, Half, Want

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• The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Health, Medicine, Restoration

  Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

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• Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

  Jim Wallis

  Commodity, Should, Humans

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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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• The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Healthcare Reform, Goal

  "Single payer health: it's only fair" by Bernie Sanders, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Control healthcare and you control the people

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Rules For Radicals

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• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  Dean Ornish

  Change, Death, Heart

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jail

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Reform, Cost

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• What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

  Glenn Beck

  Rights, Handouts, Housing

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• The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Office, Cost

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• It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Leader, Horizon

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Money

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• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Fall, Mean, Science

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• Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.

  Barack Obama

  People, Parent, Proud

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Mistake, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Liberty, Want

  "The Defunct Foundations of the Republic". www.wnd.com. January 01, 2010.

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• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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• The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Years, Numbers, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, School

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

  Lindsey Graham

  Cutting, Government, Growing

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cost, World, Outcomes

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• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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