Thomas Frank Quotes

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

Affordable health care that protects people with pre-existing conditions is a priority for Kansans, and it's been one of my top priorities since taking office.

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.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

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.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

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

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.

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

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

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

Every time somebody ends up in a hospital because of a condition that is, we believe, caused by behaviors that they have been willing to pursue, you and I help pay for their care. So we need to try to put some focus on individual responsibility.