Michael Porter Quotes

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

As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

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

I am convinced that inside two or three years both the doctors who provide the service and the people who receive the survice will be so completely satisfied with it that no government would dare to take it way.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

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

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Our health system is broken.

By redesigning our health care system, we are participating in one of the greatest social experiments in American history.

One issue that affects every American is health care.

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

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

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.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

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.

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

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.