Nathan Deal Quotes

Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don't really think about it.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation.

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

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.

A Patients' Bill of Rights is at the center of our national existence.

Nobody will ever be turned away at my city hospital.

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

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

What we need are more good doctors and fewer bad health plans.

How do we crate a quality health care system that is universal?

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

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.

The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me.