“I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20.” EyeGivenLossSpecialPolicyCostProfitTreatmentHospitalsBeggar Author:Muhammad Yunus
“What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.” WellsPersonsFoundCostCancerFocusedBreastsTreatmentMy Best FriendBreast Cancer Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“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
“Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.” CompanyMillionsCostResearchDollarsAidsTreatmentAltruismHivPharmaceuticalHiv AidsPharmaceutical Companies Author:David Mixner
“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.
“The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.” CountryStatesProblemActionUnitedUnited StatesCostDrugDemandPoliceBordersTreatmentMexicoPreventionBorder Control Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep - hepatocarcinoma in patients.” ThinkingCareImagineCostDrugPatientCancerSavingExpensiveTreatmentImagine ThatTransfersSaving MoneyPreventingCheckpointsHepatitisHepatitis C Author:Laurie Glimcher
“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
“I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.” ShouldPhilosophySeemsCertainPolicyCostIllTreatmentElderly Author:Terry Pratchett
“If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.” IfsLongSpecialSecurityCostEnglandTreatmentSpecial Treatment Author:Salman Rushdie
“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