Top 1200 Health Care System Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.

The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

It is the people who are running the system that's the problem, and if you deal with that aspect of the system, you will eventually get the system to work for you.

In my twenties, I relied on Planned Parenthood as my health care provider - and throughout my time in the State House, I have fought for Mainers' reproductive rights.

Given our family's long history with Variety the Children's Charity, BJC Health System and St. Jude's, it was an easy decision to get involved with Victory Junction.

If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

Protecting those with pre-existing conditions was one of the greatest health care reforms in our country's history and must be protected at all costs.

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

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

For a competitive and sustainable economy, the U.S. must have a skilled and well-trained workforce that can meet the evolving needs of industry, such as in education and health care.

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.

Proposing direct discounts at the pharmacy counter is just part of the Trump agenda for fairer, more transparent prices in health care.

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.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

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.

In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

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.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

Yoga, in its authentic form, is a system of health for the body, mind, and spirit. Neglecting an element transforms the practice into something that is not, in fact, yoga.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

I firmly believe we can bring back free and fair competition to the health care marketplace that will benefit consumers and providers alike.

I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action on health care.

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no room to say, "This is stupid."

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

No matter where they live or how much money their parents make, every child deserves access to high-quality health care.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.