Emily Thornberry Quotes

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

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.

I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

The goal should be universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care.

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

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.

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

One person uninsured is one person too many.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

Our biggest achievement was health-sector reform. The success was in making sure that primary health care was the center of gravity in our health system.

One of the things we need to do is address mental health care as an integral part of primary care. People often aren't able to navigate a separate system, so you see successful models where a primary care physician is able to identify, diagnose, and concurrently help people get mental health treatment who have mental health issues.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.

Obamacare wouldn't exist - it's saved millions of lives - without Pelosi getting it through the House. Not a perfect piece of legislation, but she deserves a lot of credit for that.

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

To create jobs in Montana, we must find ways to reduce the cost of health care delivery.

A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.

I used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping.