Health Care Quotes - Page 12

• Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

  Tom Ridge

  Events, Care, Panic

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• No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

  Lindsey Graham

  Cost, Care, Employers

  "Lindsey Graham, Rick Scott and David Plouffe on "State of the Union"". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2012.

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• The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

  T. Colin Campbell

  People, Missing, Healthy

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• The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

  Fred Upton

  Opposites, Obamacare, Quality

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• When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

  Ron Wyden

  Home, Care, Veteran

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• Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

  Tim Walberg

  Stress, Doctors, Government

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• In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

  Atul Gawande

  Reform, Stories, Movement

  "Annals of Public Policy" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

  Andrew Lansley

  Top Down, Gps, Serious

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• We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

  Kent Conrad

  United States, Reform, Swamps

  "State of the Union" with John King, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2009.

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• People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

  Mike Conaway

  Government, People, Care

  "DADT repeal: Hill surprise of 2010?". Interview with David Mark, www.politico.com.

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• Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

  Kendrick Meek

  Thinking, Focus, Drug

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• Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.

  Phil Robertson

  Care, Kind, Schemes

  "'Duck Dynasty' Star Advises Men to Marry Teenage Girls" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Children, Educational

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Government

  "Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

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• It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Loss, Judging, Leaving

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• Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

  Paul Gillmor

  Country, Doctors, Years

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

  Michael Bennet

  People, Challenges, Care

  "The Politics of 'Yes'” by Sen. Michael Bennet, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Children, Giving

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

  Tim Wise

  Jobs, Real, School

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• One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Care, Reform, Prevention

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• I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Believe, Play, Two

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• The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  War, Doctors, Nurse

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