Russell Simmons Quotes

If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

When a company owns a drug, it has a responsibility to make sure that the drug is available to all who need it.

When we're talking about medical care we're talking about our sense of values. Do we think human life is important? Do we think that the best medical care which is available is something to which people are entitled, by virtue of belonging to a civilized community?

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

We want to make sure that we take care of people that most need healthcare, make sure they actually get healthcare instead of just an insurance policy that means they can't access the doctor they want.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for still-patented advanced medicines at the pharmacy, for comprehensive insurance coverage or for a national health system.

Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.