“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.” LongCareMotherTermMy OwnPracticeExampleCostImpactBillsIllnessMedicalIncomeLong TermShockingPersonal ExperiencesTerminalMedical CareTerminal Illness Author:Judy LaMarsh
“Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.” PeopleNeedsYearsTwoEarthFacesQualityCostMedicalTwo YearsInterventionQuality Of LifeOlder People Author:Nancy Pelosi
“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
“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.” IfsTwoUseProblemCareCasesChildhoodCostPercentThirdsMedicalPrimariesExpensesCurvesCompetitorsComprehensiveObesityReconcileChargingChildhood ObesityPrimary Care Author:William J. Clinton
“In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.” LooksOrderChallengesDealsPayRichClearCostDemandRaisesMedicalRevenue Author:Bill Gates
“The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.” DoeCountryGovernmentCareRunningQualityMagicCostMedicalHealth CareQuantityOther CountriesWandsMedical CareMagic Wands Author:Thomas Sowell
“You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsChildrenSaidTwoHomeCareLawMotherDiesHouseEasyTalkingCostHundredYears AgoSightCleanAverageAvailableMedicalMilesBunchChildbirthJerusalemMaking People HappyMedical CareDentalSquires Author:Terry Pratchett
“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.” CareSpaceHalfBuildingWillingCostDrugBenefitsAvailableMedicalPsychologicalTreatmentJailUsersMaintainingMedical CareProsecutingDetaining Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.” AgeHalfCostMedicalOld AgeCakeCandleTestingBirthday Cake Author:Faina Ranevskaya
“One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.” ReasonGovernmentHappensCareUsedAnswersPayCompanyHigherPoliticianCostPaidPatientMedicalGuaranteesGuarantees ThatInsurance CompaniesMedical Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'” FirstsTelevisionCostMedicalCaliforniaExpensiveSecondsAdsMarijuanaLots Of MoneyMedical MarijuanaSpongebob Squarepants Author:Craig Ferguson
“I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.” ThinkingWorldShouldBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWeekCostTaxesIncreasePaidInvestmentMedicalPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“A bag of quality marijuana in Minnesota will cost you 400 bucks, in Colorado it'll cost you 100 and a quarter. Medical Marijuana, a pill that you've got to pay for - which, it's allowed in Minnesota, but it's so restricted - costs $600 a month. If you live in Colorado you can get the same medical marijuana for $30 a month. See why it needs to be legalized across the board?” IfsNeedsPayQualityMonthsCostMedicalBoardsBagsQuartersMarijuanaPillsBucksColoradoMinnesotaMedical Marijuana Author:Jesse Ventura
“If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.” IfsHumansSufferingLevelsQualityTechnologyConditionsCostMedicalAddressesHuman SufferingNanotechnologyMedical ConditionsMedical TechnologyMedical Advances Author:Ralph Merkle
“I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.” TryingCarePresidentCostMedicalWelcomeReformHealth CareMalpractice Author:Ben Quayle
“Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.” CareTodayAbilityPayTakenCostRegardPatientMedicalAcceptedTreatedTreatmentHospitalsCoveredHospitalitySt Jude Author:Marlo Thomas