61 Quotes About Health-Care

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe. Suzy Kassem

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies. Suzy Kassem

Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist. Suzy Kassem

The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop blaming each other and engage in dialogue with one person at a time. Everyone knows that violence begets violence and breeds more hatred. We need to find our way together. I feel I cannot rely on the various spokespersons who claim they act on my behalf. Invariably they have some agenda that doesn't work for me. Instead, I talk to my patients, to my neighbors and colleagues-- Jews, Arabs--and I find out they feel as I do: we are more similar than we are different, and we are all fed up with the violence. . Izzeldin Abuelaish

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly speaking, a political one, that is today, it is not concerned with human beings as persons and citizens, but with human bodies.. In all technologically advanced countries today, whatever political label they give themselves, their policies have, essentially, the same goal: to guarantee to every member of society, as a psychophysical organism, the right to physical and mental health. W.h. Auden

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry. Christopher Hitchens

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency. Christopher Hitchens

It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health. Eraldo Banovac

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle--- Gods. Shannon L. Alder

I nurture daily my wellness. Lailah Gifty Akita

Renew energy, revive strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people. Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. Brad Pitt

Conception is a blessed event. Fertilization is divine intervention. The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter. The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event. Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress. Allan Lokos

Exercise promotes positive self-image and good well-being. Lailah Gifty Akita

Be good to your sacred self. Lailah Gifty Akita

When I have opportunity to walk, I never miss it. Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily mediation is a healthy spiritual exercise. Lailah Gifty Akita

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day. Lailah Gifty Akita

We must experience Heaven on earth; May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment. Lailah Gifty Akita

The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined! Craig Compton

Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Unknown

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even–in some cases–enough food to escape starvation. Ronald J. Sider

The graveyard is every man final resting place. Lailah Gifty Akita

Self care, self love. Self esteem, self confidence Lailah Gifty Akita

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds. Herbert M. Shelton

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. Bill Gates

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness. Amit Kalantri

Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible. Charisse Montgomery

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor Michael Pollan

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care. Michael Pollan

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people. David Lincoln

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are motivated entirely by short-term rewards. A radical reshaping of the entire economy, for two election cycles’ worth of campaign cash — that was what this bill meant. It sounds absurdly reductive to say so, but there’s no other explanation that makes any sense. Matt Taibbi

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. Teri Reynolds

Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It is frequently a poor arrangement for doctors as well, but that does not mitigate how little the system accounts for the patient's best interest. Just when you are at your weakest and least able to make all the phone calls, traverse the maze of insurance, and plead for health-care referrals is that one time when you have to — your life may depend on it. Ross I. Donaldson

Until fairly recently, every family had a cornucopia of favorite home remedies--plants and household items that could be prepared to treat minor medical emergencies, or to prevent a common ailment becoming something much more serious. Most households had someone with a little understanding of home cures, and when knowledge fell short, or more serious illness took hold, the family physician or village healer would be called in for a consultation, and a treatment would be agreed upon. In those days we took personal responsibility for our health--we took steps to prevent illness and were more aware of our bodies and of changes in them. And when illness struck, we frequently had the personal means to remedy it. More often than not, the treatment could be found in the garden or the larder. In the middle of the twentieth century we began to change our outlook. The advent of modern medicine, together with its many miracles, also led to a much greater dependency on our physicians and to an increasingly stretched healthcare system. The growth of the pharmaceutical industry has meant that there are indeed "cures" for most symptoms, and we have become accustomed to putting our health in the hands of someone else, and to purchasing products that make us feel good. Somewhere along the line we began to believe that technology was in some way superior to what was natural, and so we willingly gave up control of even minor health problems. Karen Sullivan

If I could bottle the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a pill, it would become a blockbuster drug. Rajiv Misquitta

Lord have mercy upon mankind. Deliver and save the world from the dreadful EBOLA VIRUS. Lailah Gifty Akita

The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus. Lailah Gifty Akita

The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this system do not care about your health, and it's far from being a system. It's a fragmented patchwork of procedure-oriented services that are meshed in a voluminous trail of paper payments, with little relevance to community-based needs. This misdirected, disease-managed non-care system of symptom suppression demands more and more treatment at higher and higher costs. If they cared at all, you'd be treated like a human, not like a number resembling, quite frankly, the ear tags on a cattle herd. Gary Tunsky

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un- American and despotic. Benjamin Rush

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. Walter Cronkite

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea, ' to quote Gandhi. Paul Farmer

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance. Chris Hayes

This is the opposite of the free market. Bill Maher

Let's run the experiment. Chris Hayes

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well. .. all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! Matt Groening

Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key drivers of racial differences in mortality. Crime kept people off the streets and limited their ability to exercise. The lack of grocery stores limited dietary choices. The lack of primary care doctors and specialists in these communities made chronic disease care more difficult. The degradation and loss of hospital services in these communities affected hospital-based outcomes. … The chronic underfunding of critical health services at Cook County Hospital and other safety-net providers contributed to these poor outcomes as well. The deleterious impact of social structures such as urban poverty and racism on health has been called 'structural violence. David A. Ansell

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute –including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world–the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper.. when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures. Denton Cooley

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year. Clayton M. Christensen

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient. Raheel Farooq

Cannabis is just way too healthy for a sick health care system Sebastian Marincolo

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health Tyne OConnell

Any thought which brings with it fear, worry, anxiety etc. should be immediately banished from the mind by replacing such thoughts with self-assuring, positive and energizing thoughts. This is called 'Quantum Mind' and it can work miracles in your life. Sanchita Pandey