“The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.” TwoCareBreakProductsIndustryRight NowCrisisPatientHealth CareTwo ThingsFood Industry Author:Michael Pollan
“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
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.” CareStupidIndustryInternetCostEntrepreneurEdgesHealth CareBluntAuto IndustryHealth Care Costs Author:Tom Allen
“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
“Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?” WorldDoeDoneGovernmentWould BeCareRunningImagineBuildingIndustryCostPrisonHealth CareExceptionImagine ThatGarbageHousingCollecting Author:Thomas Sowell
“In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.” CareTermEconomySuccessfulGrowingEconomicIndustryBurdenProofHealth CareMassiveProfitableRecessions Author:Marcia Angell
“The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.” HappensCareIndustryWasteHealth CarePharmaceuticalInefficiencyPharmaceutical Industry Author:Marcia Angell
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.” BelieveStillsCareOpportunityIndustryChinaAdministrationHealth CareBranchesHotelShoppingAmbitiousTransportTaxi Author:Zhang Xin
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.” PeopleWorldCountryCareEarthPayIndustryDrugMajorsHighestHealth CareGuaranteesPrescriptionsPharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmacyPharmaceutical Industry Author:John Lewis