Robert Wilkie Quotes

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

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

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.

Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

Keeping America competitive requires affordable health care.

Nobody will ever be turned away at my city hospital.

Militaries, like all big organizations, tend to do what they know how to do rather than what they might need to do differently to address the situation they face

We ration health care now. We just don’t ration very rationally.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

In the future we may have to ration health care, but we're not there now.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.

I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.

Whoever has the best take is what matters. My challenge is finding the best take, and it'll always be that.