“Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.”
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“I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.”
“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”
“Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.”
“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.”
“The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.”
“Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.”
“America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.”
“However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.”
“In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.”
“It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.”
“Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.”
“I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.”
“Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.”
“It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.”
“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
“I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.”
“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”
“When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.”
“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”
“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”
“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.”
“I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”