Quotes of: Health-care-costs Keyword

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile ...

Mandy Moore

Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key drivers of racial differences in mortality. Crime kept peop...

County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital

Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.

Atul Gawande

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Judd Gregg

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

Gabrielle Reece

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

Melanie Fiona

Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It is frequently a poor arrangement for doctors as well, but that does not mitigate how little the system accounts for the patient's best interest...

The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.

Virginia Postrel

The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

Ted Cruz

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. Wh...

The Cost of Discipleship

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

Tom Rath

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

Christine Gregoire

The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.

Charles B. Rangel

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Irwin Redlener

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Malcolm Gladwell

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Patricia Hewitt

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

John Mackey

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Geraldine Ferraro

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 o...

Blanche Lincoln

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the govern...

Sendhil Mullainathan

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are...

Jan Brewer