“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.” IfsWantCarePayQualityCompanyFieldsAmountDrugWasteAdvertisingHealth CareHospitalsMisgivingsDrug CompaniesQuality Service Author:Dave Obey
“People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.” PeopleCareCompanyMillionsHealth CareInsurance Companies Author:Lizz Winstead
“The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.” GovernmentCareCompanyCostDoctorsHealth CareRisingVillainPrincipalPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical CompaniesHealth Care Costs Author:Neal Boortz
“Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.” WantMadeGovernmentCareDecisionCompanyDoctorsStressPatientHealth CareResidentsInsurance Companies Author:Tim Walberg
“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
“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.” PeopleTryingCareJobsCompanyTakenRiskWalkingSafeConversationEntrepreneurAccessMedicalHealth CareConvinceValleysUnwillingInnovatorsSiliconSilicon ValleyWalking AwayMedical Insurance Author:Eric Ries
“When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.” CarePresidentCompanyReformHealth CarePresident ObamaGovernorsRomneyObamacareInsurance CompaniesHealth Care ReformGovernor RomneyWomen's Health Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.” CountryCareAmericaFilmNextCompanyIndustryHealth CareDocumentariesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical CompaniesDocumentary Films Author:Argus Hamilton