Health Care Quotes - Page 28

• [A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Recovery, America, Long

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• There will be no insurance industry left in three years.

  Tom Coburn

  Years, Three, Care

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• [The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a government of the people to a government of the regulators.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Country, Moving, Government

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• One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

  Paul Broun

  Medicine, America, Doctors

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• [I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine....On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can also say without hesitation, that the quality of healthcare in this county is second to none - and sacrificing quality to achieve these necessary reforms is not acceptable. A single payer, government run healthcare system is the worst possible way to achieve this goal.

  Glenn Thompson

  Running, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it....This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism....It's unconstitutional.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Next Week, Jewels

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• [The Republican plan will] make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

  Virginia Foxx

  Senior, Government, Pro Life

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• I would hate to think that among five women, one of 'em is gonna die because we go to socialized care.

  Louie Gohmert

  Hate, Thinking, Ems

  "Right-Wing Escalates Fear-Mongering Rhetoric: Warns Americans Will Die If Health Care Reform Passes" by Faiz Shakir, thinkprogress.org. July 16, 2009.

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• Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Government, Competition

  "McConnell: No gov't health insurance" by Carrie Budoff Brown, www.politico.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Government, Waiting

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• [The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.

  Peter Ferrara

  Medicine, Government, People

  "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.

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• Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate. ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.

  Jim DeMint

  Medicine, Goal, Use

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• Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Medicine, Campaigns

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Care, Broads

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• Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Health, Free Education, Care

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• Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

  Sachin H. Jain

  Hearing, Stories, World

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• By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

  Chris Chocola

  Offering, Care, Return

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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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• I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

  Eric Massa

  Believe, Care, Crisis

  "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.

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• With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

  Eric Massa

  Running, House, Hawaii

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• Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

  Steven Rattner

  Names, Swamps, Care

  "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.

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• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, Thinking, Innovation

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• If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

  Andrew Saul

  Want Something, Done, Care

  Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Fire Your Doctor!: How to Be Independently Healthy: Easyread Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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