Rob Wittman Quotes

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

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.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

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

My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.

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.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.