Mikhail Varshavski Quotes

Uninsured care happens in this country, and here's the problem. It's not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers.

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

The average man with a need for an operation cannot afford a first class hospital …My medical pills run $400 to $500 a month and hell, I feel pretty good … Costs must be tempered..

I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meager incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

Healthcare expenses often wipe out families.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.

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

Early consolidation of hospitals was for efficiency to reduce costs. However in local market's consolidations have become monopolies and have increased costs.

Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.