Quotes of: Medical-care Keyword

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Bill Nelson

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

Arlen Specter

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

Dave Reichert

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

William Westmoreland

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, a...

Jim Cooper

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Richard Lamm

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

Joel Fuhrman

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schoo...

Margaret Geller

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Joe Baca

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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

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

Mike Ferguson

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

Steve Buyer

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life...

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

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

Barbara Boxer

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Bill Frist

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Timothy Noah

Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.

Jerome Groopman

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

Norma McCorvey

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

Anne Wojcicki