Thomas Carper Quotes

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

It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.

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

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick.

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.

You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.

I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x–rays, cardio stress tests, EKGs and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers. If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

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

When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise.

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

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

It's cool to be healthy.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

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

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

I want to drive down health care costs.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

I'm a preventative doctor.