Healthcare Quotes - Page 3

• President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.

  Edzard Ernst

  Pain, Medicine, Deserve Better

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• The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

  Conan O'Brien

  House, Voting, Bills

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• President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

  Conan O'Brien

  Grandma, Government, Support

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• Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.

  Joni Ernst

  Government, Driven, Should

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• Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Book, Reading

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• The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

  Vinod Khosla

  Practice Of Medicine, Lessons, Today

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• As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

  Bill Richardson

  School, Thinking, Issues

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• I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

  Rick Scott

  Believe, Principles, Problem

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• I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

  Steve Kerr

  Motivational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

  Allen Boyd

  Reality, Men, Numbers

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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• Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Yawning, Doe, Canada

  Jeremy Clarkson (2010). “How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson”, p.215, Penguin UK

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• I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

  Liz Miller

  Lying, Thinking, Doctors

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• This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Jobs, Government

  "POLITICO Interview: Rep. Paul Ryan". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. March 23, 2010.

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• There should be choice in healthcare.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Choices, Should

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• If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.

  Rebecca Onie

  Healthy, Honest, Harbors

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• My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Food, White, Cooking

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• The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

  James Chanos

  Long, Interesting, Groups

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• Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

  Eva Longoria

  Jobs, Issues, Immigration

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

  "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  Larry Sabato

  Government, Offering, Iraq

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