Medical Care Quotes - Page 2

• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Anthony Principi

  Kids, Iraq, Care

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• In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

  Laurie Garrett

  Age, Care, Disease

  Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9

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• As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

  John Barrasso

  Believe, Order, President

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• For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Doctors, Careers

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Automation

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

  Charles Derber

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

  Max Brooks

  Sleep, Night, Government

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• Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Quality, Reform, Care

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• To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.

  Karl Evang

  Country, Health, Care

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.

  Brande Roderick

  Party, Tough Times, Hiv

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• Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Grateful, Earthquakes, People

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• In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

  Joel Fuhrman

  Numbers, Sick, People

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• I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Should Have, Care

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• What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Government, Ideas

  "Unhealthy Arrogance". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2009.

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• It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?

  Milton Friedman

  Taken, Care, Pay

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• [Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.

  Murray Rothbard

  Priorities, Political, Mind

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Believe, Yoga

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• We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Scotland, America

  Dave Barry (1991). “Dave Barry's guide to life”, Random House Value Publishing

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• People are scared of falling sick in Indonesia, because Indonesia has one of the most compassionless medical systems in the world, totally abandoned to market forces. Medical care here is just 'business', as everything else here has become 'business'. It is quite terrifying and grotesque.

  Andre Vltchek

  Fall, People, Sick

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you're having a conversation with someone who, despite his brilliant medical career, says he's going to produce the film, you think, "How's he gonna do this? Is he insane, or is he really going to pull this off? It might be both." It's really amazing to see someone do what he's done.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Insane, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

  Doug Rice

  Quality, Thailand, Care

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm fortunate. I've always had medical care. I've always had access. I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Important, Care

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Mean, Care, Medical

  "A Culture of Liberty" by Jacob M. Appel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Egypt, People

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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