Rick Harrison Quotes

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

We must always make sure that our doctors work for their patients and not for the government

I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

The consumer is really underutilized in health care.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

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

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

Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.

I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.