Elton John Quotes

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

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

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

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.

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that.

What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.

Hillary Clinton is on record supporting a doubling of community health centers in this country, which will mean that tens of millions of people - poor people - will have access to health care that do not have it today. Is that significant? It is very significant.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.