Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
You may or may not agree with Obama’s policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.
Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all – not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books – because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it’s a permanent feature of life and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
America’s doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.
Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
It’s time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don’t have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
If the choice is between universal health care or fixing our broken immigration system or upholding a 60-vote filibuster rule that is nowhere in the Constitution, I’m going to choose actually making progress for the American people.
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
It’s going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, ‘How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?’
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don’t just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.
An ‘exchange’ would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options – just like federal employees and Congress do right now – and allow their employer to help pay for it.
Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
As president, Barack Obama has the potential to finally bring our country together to meet the enormous challenges ahead. This includes restoring economic prosperity, moving toward energy independence, delivering affordable health care for all, and implementing a responsible, effective foreign policy.
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children’s own education.
For women, access to reproductive health care isn’t a political issue.
AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.
Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about women’s health care needs; it cares about abortion.
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can’t afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can’t afford coverage or their insurance doesn’t cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.
All I’m asking for is the law that’s been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let’s find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: ‘That’s not who we are.’ Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation’s very identity.
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.
I’m not saying we don’t need health care reform. We do need health care reform.
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Like, everyone knows that we all need health care, but not only is it insanely expensive for most people in America, there are so many self-employed people who really struggle when faced with injury and disability and illness.
If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it’s the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada’s indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them – it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what’s at stake, they wouldn’t stand for it.
Efforts to repeal Obamacare are misguided, dangerous, and just another instance of Republicans fighting the political wars of years past. But, health care shouldn’t be about politics; it must be about helping people lead healthier lives.
I’m no health care expert, but you’ve got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.
There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
Our message of ensuring every Hoosier has access to a quality education that turns into a good paying job, that ultimately leads to a meaningful career with access to affordable health care, is resonating.
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.
At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything – some would claim he lost everything – by being so single-minded.
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we’ll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room – they can have their own health care plan.
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
