Kathleen Sebelius Quotes

I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs.

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

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

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.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

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.

What I want is a strong NHS delivering the highest standards of care anywhere in the world, and that is true to the founding values of the NHS, and I hope that, looking back on my time as health secretary, people can see that, actually, the foundations for that change were laid in the period that I was health secretary.

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

The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare - but also becoming a healthier population.

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.

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 believe in health care reform.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

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

American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

In order for America to remain the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce costs, ease regulatory burdens, and increase the efficacy of producing new treatments and cures here in the U.S.

We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

Championing quality improvement and value in the health care system is a passion of mine, and I'm able to bring about change through private equity activities.

The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.

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?