Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

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.

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

I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

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.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

It’s time to rethink the whole system of HMOs and managed care. This entire unnecessary level of corporatism rakes off profits and worsens the quality of care.

No one wants to go back to the time when insurance companies decided who would get health care.

I think we have to repair our broken health care system.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

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

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

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

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

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.

Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.