When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.
Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.
Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.
OK then the South won’t get any blood!
Our country is the richest in the history of the world. We should be working to expand and improve successful programs like Medicare, and offer more to our citizens.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.
I refuse to politicize a health issue.
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
All should take care of the sick
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I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
At the end of the day, health above all.
You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.
Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.
