Joni Ernst Quotes

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what?

We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

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

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

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.

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

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.

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.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

I believe in health care reform.

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.