Donald Berwick Quotes

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

It is a lot easier to find gaps in the health care system than to find ways to fill them.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

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

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

When you're talking about comprehensive health care, you're going to make a lot of people unhappy.

We don't have a health care system. We have a health care maze.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

The Trump administration has been quietly moving to systematically undermine health care putting lives at risk and offering no alternative solution.

So when you hear these lies about how we can't possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.