Walter E. Williams Quotes

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

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.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

It is wrong when a breast cancer patient cannot access federally funded research data paid for by her hard-earned taxes.

Your care and your treatment shouldn't be dictated by your ZIP code.

I think Medicaid harms people.

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn't widen gaps between the rich and poor.

I know firsthand how our being such a rural state presents challenges to healthcare.

We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'

Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.

Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.

I began my career as a medical doctor in Ama Keng, a poor village in Lim Chu Kang. The people I cared for were ordinary Singaporeans. They were simple people who despite their hard work, had barely enough for themselves.