“As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.” IfsLoveInspirationalLittlesDoeSelfHelpingAgeBloodLove YouSelf LoveCostAnxietyDoctorsLet MeFunctionIncreasePressureNotionHearingSelf AcceptanceHoneyLove YourselfHealthcareImprovingNew AgeEpidemicsOutputHardcoreBlood PressureEyesightWiringGynecologistsCardiacObstetricians Author:Christiane Northrup
“Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.” IfsTermCostDiseaseIncreaseInnovationFavorsCuresSavingExceptionRegimesHealthcareIncentivesSaving MoneyDiabetesAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Bill Gates
“We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?” Would BeCostAgreeStartingReformHealthcareStarting OverReformationStarting Point Author:Newt Gingrich
“Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.” RealValuesCostHealthcareShelterReal Value Author:Dean Kamen
“For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.” ChildrenHelpingCommunityNumbersPovertyCuttingCostSafeDiseaseDollarsLifetimeProtectionMedicalTreatmentHospitalsHealthcareVaccinesDoseSave A LifeMedical Treatment Author:Seth Berkley
“The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.” YearsHas BeensNumbersBrainSeriousHugeCostPercentLifetimeIncludingBillionsAdministrationInjuryDisabilityHealthcareWoundedVeteranTaxpayersHuge NumbersHead Injuries Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.” IfsBodyRunningTodayPresidentLinesViewsMilitaryCostAppropriateHealthcareIrresponsibleArmor Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.” IfsCountryAbleCostHandleReformHealthcareEscalating Author:Barack Obama
“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.” PeopleWantYearsMindFactsGovernmentThreeMillionsPlansCostProjectsYears AgoOperationsRetirementThree YearsHealthcareTaxpayersVisitorsWashington Dc Author:Neal Boortz
“The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.” WorldWorstCostOutcomesHealthcare Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.” NeedsJobsCostTaxesDrivenHealthcareKillersProvenObamacare Author:Joni Ernst
“I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.” ThinkingWayFirstsTwoWholeCan DoAttentionTechnologyFocusPromiseCostDiseaseManagementMedicineLifestyleExpensiveDependentTreatmentHealthcareMainstreamPromotionShiftingTwo WaysPreventionHealth Promotion Author:Andrew Weil
“We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.” NeedsCoursesFailingCostHealthcare Author:Jill Stein
“The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.” PeopleKnowsPartyIssuesStudentsRepublicanCostDrugTradeAddictionIllnessDebtMental IllnessImmigrantsHealthcareRepublican PartyPrescriptionsDrug AddictionDrug AddictPrescription Drugs Author:John Kasich
“If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as a priority. Here in America, we won't have the same kind of healthcare availability because it's still a private sector initiative. But that's O.K. because it's facilitated to be made more affordable in a public way.” IfsWorldWayKindMadeStillsCountryAmericaTalkingCostPrioritiesHealthcareInitiativeCompetingAffordablePrivate SectorAvailability Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business. The healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses but the people.” PeopleHas BeensRunningOpinionCostAbsolutesDisasterHealthcareRoof Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.” CountryEconomyDoorsCostDrugCrisisCriminalsTerroristImmigrationOur CountryIllegalHealthcareJudicialEducation SystemIllegal ImmigrationImmigration LawsLegal Immigration Author:Timothy Murphy
“Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.” FeetCostMajorsAbuseConsumersGoodsHealthcareLawsuitContributorsGoods And Services Author:Charles W. Pickering
“And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.” MeanJobsAmericaGrowthHurtCostTaxesChampionEnginesHealthcareRegulationSmall BusinessFifthReducingObamacareReinsJob GrowthRepealing Author:Mitt Romney
“The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.” WayGovernmentCostOfficeDrivenPostsConsumersHealthcareReignRight WayPost Office Author:Mitt Romney
“The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.” WayRealGoalQualityCostUniversalReformHealthcareCoverageHigh QualityHealthcare Reform Author:Bernie Sanders
“I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.” WantNextEnergyHigherCostTaxesTradeBillsDebtSpendingFearfulHealthcareEmployersCapsMandates Author:John Boehner