“13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.” YearsCareCostBillionsSavedDevelopingHealth CarePregnancyChildbirthBreastfeedingHealth Care CostsMidwifery Author:Frank Oski
“The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.” PeopleThinkingCountryReasonMightCareAmericaHatePayVoteDemocratFishesDon't CareOilBillionsUpsetVotingOther CountriesDrillsBeetlesGophers Author:David Letterman
“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCareRunningPassionGrowsLosesBusinessCompanyVisionCreativeFiveMiddleProductsManagementDollarsBillionsThings To DoRight ThingLayersInherentEntityWho CaresCreative PeopleInsertMiddle Management Author:Steve Jobs
“America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.” WorldDoeCountryCarePainAmericaFormSufferingInterestDealsCitizensTaxesUniversalFellowsProfitBillionsHealth CareIrrationalCoverageFinancingPain And SufferingUniversal Health Care Book:Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines Source: Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.” PeopleWorldFeelsPersonsImportantCarePlanetsLike YouTruth IsPercentBillionsImportant PersonMost Important PersonCould Care Less Author:Jonah Hill
“Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.” YearsHumansCareFallLevelsBloodEventsSeriousCostSafePressurePatientBillionsPoundsHospitalsEmergenciesInjuredSaving MoneyHigh LevelInfectionAdverseSave A LifeNhsBlood Clots Author:Andrew Lansley
“Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.” YearsIdeasGovernmentCareJobsCompanyTechnologyHugeIndustryAmountInternetActivityResearchInvestmentBillionsHealth CarePrimePrivate SectorNew TechnologyPumpsGreat CompanyBasic ResearchBiotech Author:Bill Gates