Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.
One issue that affects every American is health care.
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 whole medical industry wants us sick.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.
When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.
One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
We must continue our work to improve and strengthen health care for Georgians, and we must defend the vital protections and programs that protect the health and wellbeing of families across our nation.
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.
For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.
As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will continue to work to bring resources, accountability and relief to our health care system.
Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and advance it.
