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- Nov 07, 2020
Health Care System Quotes
Candid takes on care, cost, and prevention.
These quotes examine what care systems should provide, from calls to prioritize prevention over crisis response to blunt criticism of how treatment actually gets delivered. See Care quotes for related reflection.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when you hear these lies about how we can’t possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would argue that the U.S. health care system is broken for reasons other than innovation.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
- Busting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn't have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020