Profoundly inspirational healthcare quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Healthcare Quotes
Because of the long-term complications of cocaine use, we are looking at a healthcare time bomb. — O. Henry
Fujitsu has embraced Tablet PC on more form factors than any other manufacturer because we see the value it adds to the healthcare industry. From touch screens to active digitizers, the diverse product line from Fujitsu delivers on the vision of Tablet PC. Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition provides a stable and reliable environment for deploying products, which is significantly contributing to its growing popularity in healthcare. — Paul Moore
Our main message to employees is Dana is open for business and will continue to operate in the normal course of business throughout the reorganization process. Dana expects to provide its employees wages, healthcare coverage, vacation and sick leave and similar benefits without interruption. — Chuck D.
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state. — Monica Crowley
We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class’s quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living. — Sander Levin
That’s what healthcare reform is about: the middle class’s economic security. — Sander Levin
We still have a lot of important issues to discuss. In healthcare there is no middle ground between our positions. — Franz Muentefering
For whatever reason, we have gotten away in the healthcare industry with acting very, very poorly towards our customers. — Elizabeth Woodcock
I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that’s a measure of success. — Dean Kamen
One of the arguments is that we don’t have to create a right of conscience. It’s already in law. What we have to say is that pharmacists are already healthcare professionals. I think that (the argument) would resonate with many members. — Ralph Rivera
Nobody was talking about healthcare until ‘Sicko’ came out. — Michael Moore
I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems. — Rick Scott
Many of the problems with the U.S. healthcare system were exposed after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita when paper health records were lost and victims were unable to access their health information or provide complete medical histories to caregivers. It’s clear that establishing a healthcare network that utilizes information technology to improve care, reduce errors and cut costs is critical. An effective, efficient system is not only important to advancing the health of our society, but also to our economic well-being and long-term competitiveness. — Craig Forman
U.S. healthcare insurers process over five billion claims annually and the ability to accurately verify medical necessity coverage early in the process is expected to be a major benefit in expediting claims processing for providers and their patients. Now that Part D is a reality, insurers – in particular – will be eager to have a solution that can quickly and accurately integrate Part D requirements into their current workflow. — Kerry Martin
Our volunteers are truly a priceless resource. These ambassadors in pink are an essential part of our healthcare organization, as they provide services that focus on the comfort and needs of our patients and other guests. — Bob Evans
The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper. — C. Koop
What we don’t have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don’t have those rights. — Glenn Beck
What we’re about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it’s a civil right. — Elizabeth Holmes
The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for. — Pete Sessions
We are proud to team up with Kodak to support in the successful storing and retrieving of critical medical and dental images of the Olympic athletes. Customers from all over the globe look to Sun for its end-to- end solution and service offerings for addressing data management needs relative to the healthcare enterprise, and the performance, reliability and overall value of its solution offerings for the healthcare industry. — Mark Canepa
There is no more important economic policy issue today than helping our nation remain the global innovation leader. To do this, our leadership must focus on an aggressive agenda to support math and science education, patent litigation reform, healthcare information technology, and research and development. We thank President Bush for his leadership and urge all members of Congress to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get the job done. — John Chambers
While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives. — Juan Williams
We are particularly excited about expanding our work with the Medicaid population in Massachusetts. Health Dialog has served this population for some time and this new initiative with Network Health speaks to the value we are able to deliver to this population in particular. The agreement with Network Health offers us the opportunity to help even more individuals in our home state confidently navigate the healthcare system. — George Bennett
Cerner’s focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome. — Neal Patterson
China has undertaken several reforms related to the safety net, healthcare reform, pension reform, education reform in the hope to reduce precautionary savings. — Zhou Xiaochuan
We are extremely focused on being the employer of choice in our markets and our new, on-site pharmacy fits in well with our company philosophy, … The three primary goals of our on-site pharmacy are to lower the company’s rising healthcare costs, pass some savings on to our associates and provide our associates with the convenience of handling their pharmaceutical needs during their work day. We view CHD Meridian Healthcare as a valuable partner in this new venture to not only provide high quality pharmacy services for our associates but to also provide us with direction to help alleviate the healthcare expenditure pains that both we as a company and our associates have been facing. — Karen Cooper
While we have made good progress in reducing costs over the last several years, the projected loss in North America reinforces our need to do much more, particularly in the area of healthcare, … Healthcare has been an increasing drag on North American profits and it’s made us vulnerable to profit shortfalls. — John Devine
For years healthcare has been moving away from the inpatient care trends that our current facility was designed around. Outpatient services at SCMC (e.g. physical therapy, outpatient surgery, CT scans) have increased 33 percent over the past five years. The new facility’s floor plan is arranged to accommodate this continuing shift in services. — Todd Willert
We’re getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We’ve been getting that all along. It’s demographically driven, it’s funded by the government, and that’s held up. — Mark Zandi
We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals. — John Johnston
Many of the factors that can put our brain health at risk are things we can modify and control. This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers of sick and mentally declining older people, and reduce healthcare costs. To accomplish that, we need more research to show us which specific combinations of lifestyle choices, and also future therapies, will maintain our brain and emotional health. — William Thies
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? — Susan George
Our patient safety culture Web site and related resources reflect the ongoing commitment of our alliance to healthcare safety. The hospitals and healthcare systems that own our alliance believe in sharing these resources with the rest of healthcare. — Susan DeVore
Our relationship with MP4 demonstrates GE’s continued commitment to personalized healthcare by providing transformational medical and information technologies to bring our customers closer to their patients. — Vishal Wanchoo
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined. — Ann Coulter
We’re beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren’t traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire. — Tom Hines
As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care. — Anne Wojcicki
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. — Timothy Murphy
I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government – and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses. — Wendy E. Long
Medical Protective made a commitment to Texas policyholders, legislators and regulators that we would closely monitor the impact of tort reforms passed in 2003. We are pleased that the emerging data continues to suggest a moderating trend in loss costs and that we are, therefore, in a position to reduce our Texas rates again. We are also pleased to confirm that last year’s acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway has helped us attain the industry’s highest financial rating, allowed us to expand our underwriting appetite to additional practice specialties that meet our underwriting criteria, and provided us with the capital to open the door for even more Texas healthcare providers who desire the strongest carrier. — Timothy Kenesey
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations. — Peter Singer
If these designated groups build their next generation of healthcare and education standards on web services, electronic forms, and open document standards, and they do so within rules of maintaining compatibility and interoperability, then IBM will not assert any of our patents on implementers of these new healthcare and education standards. — Bob Sutor
Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine. — Dikembe Mutombo
The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge. — N. R. Narayana Murthy
That decision affects about 500 employees. We’re demonstrating because we want to highlight the issue of employee responsibility for healthcare coverage. — Liz Jackson
There should be choice in healthcare. — Anne Wojcicki
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state’s most vulnerable citizens. — Tom Vilsack
If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, ‘Oh, my God, you’re going to kill all the jobs.’ — Marc Andreesen
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. — Ron Lewis
Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees’ healthcare premiums. — Chellie Pingree
The acquisition of Lifeline is an important step on our roadmap for growth in healthcare. By targeting seniors and other people who want to continue living independently and exerting more control over their health and lifestyle, we aim to become a global player in the evolving home healthcare market. — Gerard Kleisterlee
It’s easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate. — Carl Hiaasen
People who need healthcare the most, those with serious health conditions, with illnesses and disabilities are going to be potentially harmed in a very significant way by this proposal. — Ron Pollack
Our research team has been working on methods and point-of-care devices that could allow saliva to be used as a diagnostic fluid. This could impact the practice of dentistry and medicine in the very near future, as healthcare practitioners use saliva, possibly instead of blood, to diagnose and monitor oral and systemic health. — Craig Miller
Mobile technologies increasingly enable real-time collaboration and access to information across the healthcare system, allowing for more informed decisions in clinical and administrative scenarios. Whether used for checking case-management records, consulting with a colleague, or any number of other important daily activities, mobile solutions empower people to generate efficiencies and reduce costs in the healthcare setting, but most importantly contribute to higher-quality patient care. — Steve Shihadeh
Ted Kennedy’s inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all. — Christine Pelosi
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people’s individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction. — Bob McDonnell
The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending. — Tony Tan
Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other. — Cameron Sinclair
Perhaps these women, these victims, didn’t have this type of healthcare opportunity in their country of origin. Maybe they felt this was something not uncommon, but whatever reason they had for becoming victims certainly doesn’t take away from the heinous nature of the crime. — Hugh Graf
The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered. — Trace Devanny
Organizations are increasingly looking for single sign-on, access security and provisioning solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing applications and IT infrastructure. It is critical for healthcare organizations to implement a complete identity and access management solution that will not only streamline workflows to improve caregiver productivity, but also strengthen security and provide centralized identity and policy management. — John Lovelock
Our 3Com wired and wireless solution delivers all the performance, flexibility and ease of use we need, at a remarkably low total cost of ownership. With ample capacity to support our needs both today and well into the future, we’re confident of our ability to prepare proactively to meet our community’s ongoing healthcare needs. — Mike Baker
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need. — Chris Toumazou
If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year’s insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense. — Tom Rath
Lloyd was asked to speak as a healthcare consultant to physicians, hospital administrators, agents and brokers at very high profile events. Without exception, participants mentioned Lloyd’s speech as the high point of the event. It was evident he had researched the organization and the audience. — J. Taylor
Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions. — Rosemary Haefner
I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people’s lives. — Yusuf Hamied
Over the last year, we’ve seen a sharp increase in our enterprise customer base toward voice, expanding beyond the early white-tile applications in healthcare and warehouses, and more into the carpeted enterprise. — Ben Gibson
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior’s healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications. — Dennis Hastert
We have the economic wherewithal to do whatever we want, we just need bold statements and strong leadership. If someone challenged this country to solve our healthcare crisis by 2020, it would get done, the way we put a man on the moon during President Kennedy’s time in office. — Vincent Caponi
Given the rise of chronic conditions and the rapid aging of the population, there has never been a more urgent need to improve quality and reduce costs through the optimal use of technology. I look forward to helping frame the discussion of how technology can help connect people and information in new and important ways that can enable better healthcare at lower cost. — Louis Burns
We really need them to stay there because the numbers over there are ridiculous. It’s important that they stay healthy to provide healthcare there. — Grier Stanley
We are again positioned to help meet the needs of patients, healthcare providers and customers. — Howard Pien
Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I’m frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes. — Craig Ferguson
I don’t think healthcare’s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is. — Adam Carolla
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan – it’s the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. — Camille Paglia
Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn’t reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution. — N. R. Narayana Murthy
I am all for using business – public and private – to expand healthcare coverage. — Bob McDonnell
We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes – did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care. — John Sculley
Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two ‘magic bubbles’ where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses. — Craig Marks
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies – not all of them, but many of them – ‘gender-rate.’ Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. — Gloria Steinem
We want to make sure we are using the right media and that the message is on target for what we are trying to accomplish in helping people recognize the quality of healthcare right here in Onslow County. — Tim Strickland
He has misrepresented my healthcare plan time after time after time, and I called him on it, — Bill Bradley
The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done – meaning it was not all on television. There was this procedural feeling that the bill wasn’t done thoroughly and didn’t reflect peoples’ wishes. It’s not coincidence that upwards of 60 percent of folks in my district are against it. — Timothy Griffin
People in the healthcare sector are continuing to see good job opportunities. — Steve Hines
Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner. — Brad Sherman
Our Senior Plus Plan offers a great benefit for the price. With the increase in our Part B benefit, participants can now receive $25,000 in healthcare services and pay only the Medicare Part B deductible, $110 for 2005. — Doug Day
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families’ pockets than the Bush tax cuts… He’s got a lousy tax cut. It’s only good for the super wealthy. I’ve got a tax cut that will help ordinary people. — Dick Gephardt
We reached a permanent injunction against Sun Healthcare Group, which at the time was the largest provider of nursing home care in California. — Nathan Barankin
Jefferson University Physicians is a world-class organization and we are excited to partner with them as they continue to lead the transformation of the delivery of healthcare in the Philadelphia area. With their outstanding reputation as an organization and level of commitment to this project, there is no question that JUP will quickly become one of the premier EHR reference sites on the East Coast. — Glen Tullman
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities. — Elijah Cummings
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said – Americans felt like they weren’t being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don’t want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan. — Timothy Griffin
We are happy to have Intel join the World Congress program. Leaders like Louis are accustomed to making strategic decisions concerning uses of technology in healthcare and will help the Congress open up opportunities for better IT implementation and access across these fields. — Glyn Meek
American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it’s not just that we will be able to collect information, it’s that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can’t afford medical help. Charity begins at home. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen
I would hope they would select our property and become a part of our growing community of Texas State and Seton Healthcare Network. We’ve shown them several other sites, and I think they’re considering them. — John Avery
United HealthCare does not and will not raise premium costs to cover the cost of business transactions, … Premiums in California will only reflect the cost of health care and will not go up as a result of this transaction. — James Frey
I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare. — Ann Marie Buerkle
