Health Care Quotes - Page 6

• Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

  Phil Bredesen

  Expansion, Care, Pay

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• We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, Thinking, Care

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• You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care.

  Joy Behar

  Talking, Different, Care

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• Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

  Gelila Bekele

  School, Rights, Water

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• I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

  Brian Day

  Care, Able, Loved Ones

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• [I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Years, Medicine, Care

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• In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Past, America

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• And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

  Sean Hannity

  Government, Issues, Expansion

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• I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Way, Socialism

  "Rush Limbaugh Show", www.mediamatters.org. December 16, 1993.

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• One of the reasons I've been interested in the US health care is that here is something you can do, that could lift one of the largest burdens of worry from the shoulders of tens of millions of people for whom the rest of the economy isn't working. A lot of the things that are in Obamacare that Republicans don't like were deliberately put there to force Republicans to negotiate. Republicans wouldn't negotiate, so we got Obamacare with all of the fur on it. Once it's there, of course, it's very hard to take health care benefits away from people, as the Republicans discovered.

  David Frum

  Worry, People, Care

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• I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

  Thruston Ballard Morton

  Successful, Payroll Tax, Needs

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• It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

  Carl Curtis

  Country, Moving, Care

  Carl Thomas Curtis, Regis A. Courtemanche (1986). “Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state”, Gateway Books

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• We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

  James B. Utt

  Medicine, Care, Assumption

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• Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings.

  Henry Simmons

  Reform, Would Be, Saving

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• To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

  Alexander Schindler

  Country, Mean, Luxury

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• The health of a society is truly measured by the quality of its concern and care for the health of its members . . . The right of every individuals to adequate health care flows from the sanctity of human life and that dignity belongs to all human beings . . . We believe that health is a fundamental human right which has as its prerequisites social justice and equality and that it should be equally available and accessible to all.

  Sadullah Khan

  Believe, Justice, Quality

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• The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

  William Kristol

  Availability, Doctors, Drug

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• Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Moving, Government, Views

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• Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

  Joseph Bernardin

  Important, Care, Marketplace

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• If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

  Avi Rubin

  Bed, Doe, Care

  "Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say" by Robert O'Harrow Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

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• It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

  John Quiggin

  Government, Care, Libertarian

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• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Risk, Age

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• We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Oil

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• And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

  Louise Slaughter

  Hard Work, Equal Pay, Issues

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