Health Care In The United States Quotes

#1. Fact: The cost of crime is $3.2 trillion per year - an amount greater than the expenditures for all health care in the United States.

Kent A. Kiehl

#2. Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Tariq Ali

#3. I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care,

Michael D. Higgins

#4. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

Mona Sutphen

#5. It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

Teri Reynolds

#6. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Stephen Hawking

#7. I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

Emma Thompson

#8. Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#9. McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

Robert Wachter

#10. Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

Glynn Turman

#11. Physician error, medication error and adverse events from drugs or surgery kill 225,400 people per year (Chart 1.5).11 That makes our health care system the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease (Chart 1.4

T. Colin Campbell

#12. Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.

Tom Harkin

#13. I'm a huge film star ... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f
ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f
ing Muppet movie.

Billy Connolly

#14. I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Russ Carnahan

#15. When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

Deepak Chopra

#16. I want to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

Bernie Sanders

#17. Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.

Mel Robbins

#18. We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else.

Tim Ryan

#19. When I suddenly realised that coincidence is a word we use whe we are ignorant of the real causes

Albert Salvado

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

Walter Cronkite

#21. What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

Edward Kennedy

#22. Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Dennis Kucinich

#23. Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

Natalie Portman

#24. The health care system in the United States, I'm sure you know, is a total international scandal. It's twice the per capita cost of comparable countries and one of the worst outcomes, with a huge number of people uninsured altogether. And it's going to get worse.

Noam Chomsky

#25. These memories are lost to our conscious and cannot be remembered like an ordinary memory. Sometimes they come to us as flashbacks.

Jeanne McElvaney

#26. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

#27. The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

Atul Gawande