Quotes of: Health-care-system Keyword

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

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

Gabrielle Reece

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

Angela Braly

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

Ed Rendell

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play t...

Dick Cheney

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Michele Bachmann

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on deliverin...

Richard Lamm

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

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Joyce Banda

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work wi...

Wendy E. Long

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Donna Shalala

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

Eric Alterman