With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care c...
Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.
The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.
We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
Joyfulness is half your health.
The tiredness of the body is the health of the soul.
Hygiene is two thirds of health.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics. We believe that any regression to the ideas of classical physics (as, for instance, to the use of the classical f...
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.
We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.
