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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. -- Walter Cronkite
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. -- Richard Lamm
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system. -- Julie Bishop
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. -- Judd Gregg
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. -- Tom Harkin
Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. -- Michele Bachmann
The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom. -- Steve Forbes
With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county. -- Bob Filner
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. -- Patricia Hewitt
There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system. -- Matthew Lesko
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. -- Tom Harkin
Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there. -- Melanie Fiona
America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. -- Mike Ferguson
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible. -- Valerie Jarrett
Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system. -- Stewart Rahr
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. -- Michael Moore
America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care. -- Paul Gillmor
Stop using the medical system and start using the self care system -- Nina Leavins
Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system. -- Rush Limbaugh
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. -- Michael Moore
Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system. -- Joe Biden
If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it. -- Kevin Drum
The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family. -- John F. Kerry
The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it. -- Don Lemon
The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it. -- Don Lemon
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. -- Barack Obama
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured. -- Marsha Blackburn
With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county -- Bob Filner
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system. -- Edward Kennedy
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. -- Tony Tan
We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right. -- Hillary Clinton
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. -- Sarah Palin
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. -- Bill Gates
Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby. -- William H. Calvin
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. -- Kevin Alan Lee
A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system. -- John Stossel
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. -- Shane Claiborne
I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system? -- John F. Kerry
Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare. -- Jeremy Clarkson
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. -- Ruben Hinojosa
Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system. -- Hillary Clinton
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. -- Marian Wright Edelman
How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system. -- Rick Scott
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. -- Atul Gawande
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system. -- John Conyers
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India. -- Shaffi Mather
The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time. -- James Chanos
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits. -- Mike Huckabee
Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do. -- Nathan Deal
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! -- Matt Groening
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings. -- Richard Lamm
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
The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it. -- Rush Limbaugh
We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system. -- Stephen Harper
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system. -- Noam Chomsky
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars. -- Irwin Redlener
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world. -- David Limbaugh
The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes it harder to convince Congress to fund research. -- Michael Specter
Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere. -- Julio Frenk
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely. -- Gail Collins
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section. -- Ina May Gaskin
I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment. -- Rush Limbaugh
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does. -- Donald Berwick
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones. -- Elizabeth Noble
There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it. -- Tony Robbins
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. -- Gloria Steinem
It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations. -- Bernie Sanders
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. -- Thomas Frank
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans. -- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. -- Dave Barry
I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor. -- Ted Cruz
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business. -- Judy Biggert
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away. -- Mike Huckabee
We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state. -- Shirley Chisholm
Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system. -- Suzanne Gordon
Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care. -- Paul Gillmor
What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country. -- Charlie Norwood
We have to change our whole way, our health care system is a disaster. It's going to implode in 2017, just like you're sitting there. It doesn't work. Nothing works in our country. If I'm elected president, we will win again. -- Donald Trump
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. -- Mark Steyn
The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses. -- Joe Kyrillos
The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses. -- Joe Kyrillos
She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise. -- Noorilhuda
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, are the alternatives? -- Jim Cooper
Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency. -- Jane McGonigal
I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. -- Max Baucus
The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. -- Pete Earley
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. -- John Mackey
The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home. -- Rhea Perlman
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system. -- Ron Wyden
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. -- Sarah Palin
When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax. -- Emo Philips
For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system. -- Barack Obama
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. -- Tracy Kidder
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. -- Andrew Weil
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs. -- Paul Ryan
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better. -- Tom Harkin
Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place. -- Ann Coulter
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans. -- Ron Wyden
Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy. -- Paul Ryan
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. -- Ron Wyden
For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do. -- Chelsea Handler
Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital. -- George W. Bush
The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really? -- Lewis Black
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
People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system. -- W. Edwards Deming
The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health. -- Hillary Clinton
We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system. -- Donald Trump
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. -- Jim Ryun
Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask. -- Richard Bach
We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford. -- Richard M. Nixon
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live. -- Simon Mainwaring
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care. -- James A. Forbes
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." -- Dave Barry
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
For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return. -- Samantha Morton

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