Dirk Kempthorne Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

No American should ever have to spend his golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

Too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their illnesses or being impoverished by them.

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

Just 10 percent of the population—mainly the elderly—consumes about 80 percent of health care expenditures, primarily on expensive chronic illnesses and end-of-life costs. Historically, the longer lives that medical advances have given us have run exactly parallel to the increase in chronic illness and the explosion in costs. Can we afford to live longer—much less radically longer?

The proposed Health Care Reform bill will put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

If I really lose the rest of my memory, don't let my kids spend a lot of money to put me in an expensive care facility. If they treat me very well there, I will not remember it, and if they treat me badly I will not remember that either. So it really won't matter, will it?

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.