Healthcare Needs Quotes

Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.

We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

A 75-year-old man doesn't need maternity leave or maternity care. A young person doesn't need geriatric care.

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.

As a dentist and representative, I have seen firsthand the need to make our healthcare system both more accessible and affordable.

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

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.

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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone who has a terminal disease, like my mother, or for people who live with chronic disease and have particular issues that need care.

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.