Top 1200 Affordable Health Care Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

Basically, I'm just an average person who takes a little extra care of his health.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

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

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it didn't even use it because their premiums were high. Their deductibles were high. Their copays were high.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

I've learned to trust myself that I'm going to make healthy choices because I care about my health.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I'm concerned.. if we don't fix our energy problem right now. I've got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect.

Now, why would my supporters be supporting somebody who doesn't want to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a starvation wage, doesn't want to do that. Why would anybody that supports me support a candidate like Trump who wants to throw millions and millions of people off of health insurance? We need to guarantee health care to all people as a right, not throw millions of people off health insurance as Trump wants to do.

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.

Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

Every woman should have access to quality health care and compassionate abortion alternatives.

We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people to steal - so they'll have access to medical care, health care, decent housing, all people, all over the world. As long as you don't share your resources, you are going to have trouble

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

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

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

It's clear that health care is a concern for people all across the country regardless of their political stripe or where they live.

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

We have to remember that it's usually women who are making the health care decisions for their families.... True equality would mean making sure that there's equity in terms of how insurance reimburses certain procedures; making sure that we have preventative care that's covered so women can get their mammograms and Pap screens without extra charges.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.

Yes, health care is an election issue. It's also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.