Quotes About Health Care

#1. When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

Hillary Clinton

#2. I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Gary Locke

#3. Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Sean Hannity

#4. The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

John Conyers

#5. I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.

Rick Scott

#6. Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

#7. The consumer is really underutilized in health care.

Anne Wojcicki

#8. A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Vladimir Putin

#9. Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

Bill Gates

#10. 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

#11. There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

Matthew Lesko

#12. America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

#13. I believe in health care reform.

Joe Manchin

#14. Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

David Harsanyi

#15. All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

Bill Maher

#16. Now I know what you're saying. You're saying: 'Dave, you have painted a distorted and inaccurate picture of the American health-care system. Not all patients wind up being as wretched as Mary! Many of them wind up being dead'.

Dave Barry

#17. the heart of care is empathy, a feeling and enactment of intentional regard for the well-being of others and by extension the support systems (e.g., universal health care and a living wage) that insure well-being.

Donna King

#18. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.

T. Colin Campbell

#19. A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.

Fred Thompson

#20. One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.

Judith Faulkner

#21. 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?

Jim Cooper

#22. The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Leroy Hood

#23. I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

John McCain

#24. I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

Gail Collins

#25. We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

Nan Hayworth

#26. Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

Michele Bachmann

#27. If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

Dave Obey

#28. The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.

Ari Fleischer

#29. I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.

Robert Hurt

#30. For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we're not required to set aside money for every burger we consume (to cover the real financial cost of the burger), the long-term costs of carrying extra weight remain invisible.

Kerry Patterson

#31. Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.

Jay Leno

#32. I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.

Rick Scott

#33. We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Jim Cooper

#34. When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

Claire McCaskill

#35. All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

Newt Gingrich

#36. Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

Tom Ridge

#37. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Eric Shinseki

#38. If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax

#39. But in a nation that had nearly spent its way into bankruptcy, sturdy locks and a perimeter alarm were the preferred form of security, because they didn't require salaries, health care, and pensions.

Dean Koontz

#40. I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Emma Thompson

#41. This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

Michele Bachmann

#42. America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Bill Frist

#43. We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

Doug Elmendorf

#44. 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

#45. Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Bill Maher

#46. Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Ed Pastor

#47. You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Mehmet Oz

#48. It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

Ron Wyden

#49. If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Al Sharpton

#50. Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

Rush Limbaugh

#51. We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Mehmet Oz

#52. It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even - in some cases - enough food to escape starvation.

Ronald J. Sider

#53. My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#54. Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Melanie Fiona

#55. Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

Peter Singer

#56. Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

Nancy Northup

#57. I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

John F. Kerry

#58. Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

Ronnie Musgrove

#59. In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

John Conyers

#60. To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.

Marilyn Tavenner

#61. Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.

Jeff Merkley

#62. I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Ed Pastor

#63. I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Ben Quayle

#64. Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#65. This is something which I think this country needs ... I want universal coverage! I want everyone in Massachusetts and in this country to have insurance. I support universal health care.

Mitt Romney

#66. When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#67. It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

Ron Wyden

#68. Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state of a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

Mark Steyn

#69. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

Bill Gates

#70. Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Peter Shumlin

#71. We need to make nutrition the central element of our health-care system. Furthermore,

T. Colin Campbell

#72. We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Dave Obey

#73. I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

Ted Cruz

#74. The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

Tom Coburn

#75. After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Barack Obama

#76. President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.

Steven Magee

#77. For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Steve Breen

#78. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

#79. To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.

Madonna Ciccone

#80. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Paul Ryan

#81. We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.

Oscar Arias

#82. Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

Jeff Greene

#83. We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.

Wendell Potter

#84. Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

Sandra Fluke

#85. Health care should be affordable for everyone.

Ed Pastor

#86. But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Barack Obama

#87. People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

Angela Braly

#88. Hospitals have missed the point that the best way to improve the patient experience is to build better engagement with their employees, who will then provide better service and health care to patients.

Paul Spiegelman

#89. What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

Rick Scott

#90. According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.

Ann Coulter

#91. As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Diana DeGette

#92. As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Barack Obama

#93. Whatever the Left touches
the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion
it destroys or damages

Dennis Prager

#94. By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

John Cornyn

#95. What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

John Mackey

#96. In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.

Mike Pence

#97. As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

Jan Schakowsky

#98. In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

Christine Gregoire

#99. I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

Arlen Specter

#100. Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

Donald Trump