Quotes about Healthcare

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.

No one was talking about price decreases, but that does happen in the industry to keep medicine affordable.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Let's make the best use of technology to work for patient safety as well as to fight the rising problem of non-communicable diseases, a big challenge to our country and the world.

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.