Marcia Angell Quotes

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

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.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

No doctor should ever have to call an insurance man to ask permission to treat a patient who is standing right there.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

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

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.

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