Mel Giedroyc Quotes

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

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.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

I am convinced that inside two or three years both the doctors who provide the service and the people who receive the survice will be so completely satisfied with it that no government would dare to take it way.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.

Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.

We all know we're probably the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide health care.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

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.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

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.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.