Health Care System Quotes - Page 2

• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

  Tom Harkin

  America, Sick, Care

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• What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that. [...] Because they die individually because of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and all those who ape him approve this. Forty five thousand a year in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Years, America

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. January 5, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Arrogance". townhall.com. July 22, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

  Sarah Palin

  Needs, Care, Canada

  "Following TP report, Sarah Palin is booted from her scheduled speech at a Canadian hospital fundraiser". thinkprogress.org. December 18, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Quality, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, California

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

  David Limbaugh

  Ideas, Obamacare, Government

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