Allen Boyd Quotes

It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

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.

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending.

There should be choice in healthcare.

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

It is inevitable that we are going to have to ration health care in the United States.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.