Healthcare Abuse Quotes

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Funding for women's healthcare must actually go to fund women's healthcare, not to line the coffers of an organization under increased scrutiny for reprehensible, inhumane behavior.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Miami is the place where all great Medicare fraud schemes come from. It has a great concentration of professional criminals and old people.

Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.