Health Spending Quotes

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.

At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.

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

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

When insurance covers everything, no one cares what the their health costs are. Consumers must have some skin in the game.

We believe that when prosperity comes to any country, people want to look and feel better. Hence the demand for aesthetics medicine would increase.

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

Prescription drugs today represent 60¢ on every dollar spent for health care. Ten years ago it was only 10¢.

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

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

Medicare will pay for Viagra but they won’t for eyeglasses. They give you a hardon, but they won’t let you see where to put it.

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.

The high cost of health care is creating a crushing burden, threatening our economy.

At least 25 percent of the money Americans spend on health care is wasted.

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.