Jill Stein Quotes

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

The postcode lottery means that the level of care you get differs hugely around the country, and the health service simply cannot meet every demand that is put upon it.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

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.

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

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

Our health system is broken.

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

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

There is no question in my mind that the health care system has to work.

We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.

As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

Healthcare is a tough situation.