Primary Care Quotes

• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  William J. Clinton

  Curves, Two, Childhood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

  Hillary Clinton

  Waiting, Looks, Cost

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Illinois, Years, Community

  7 Copy quote

• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  Nancy Travis

  Independent, Doctors, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.

  Bill Maher

  Average, Way, Rooms

  10 Copy quote

• The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

  Caroline Criado-Perez

  Men, Care, Facts

  4 Copy quote