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.
The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
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.
Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.
Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.
In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.
Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?
How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?
I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.
The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.
I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it.
If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.
We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.
You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.
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.
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.
