Kevin Plank Quotes

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change.

What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.

I'm a preventative doctor.

A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.