Health System Quotes

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  America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  Walter Cronkite

  Health, Caring, America

  "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hard Work, Healthy, Benefits

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• The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

  Steve Forbes

  Real, Government, Care

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

  Tom Harkin

  America, Prevention, Care

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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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• I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

  Mira Bartok

  Helping, Mental Health, Illness

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

  Philip E. Berger

  Fun, Mean, Hiv

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• Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

  Christiane Northrup

  Life, Body, Know How

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

  Robert Kuttner

  Average, Waiting, Citizens

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  School, Government, Law

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• To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Country, Numbers, Issues

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• Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

  Joycelyn Elders

  People, Community, Empowerment

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• We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

  Kathleen Sebelius

  World, Care, Next

  "Commentary: Health care can't wait" By Kathleen Sebelius, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2009.

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• To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Years, Able

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Space, People, Community

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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• Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

  Annie Lennox

  Medicine, People, Needs

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Feelings, Skins

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

  Kate Zambreno

  People, Literature, Ridiculous

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a nation, we are on a path of rapid and deep systemic change to our health system, and it's going to unfold for some time to come. It is already transforming the fundamental nature of the U.S. medical care delivery system.

  John E. McDonough

  Fundamentals, Care, Path

  Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

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• I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hiv, Textbooks, Able

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Balance, Fifty

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Two, Medical Problems

  Source: sojo.net

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• [Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Educational, Taken

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• If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for still-patented advanced medicines at the pharmacy, for comprehensive insurance coverage or for a national health system.

  Thomas Pogge

  Medicine, Innovation, Population

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

  Mary Robinson

  Should Have, Serious Illness, Care

  Source: www.who.int

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