Health Medical Care Quotes

• Barbara Boxer / United States Senator

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

• Ben Quayle / Former U.S. Representative

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.

• Ron Williams

We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it's the pharmaceutical industry or the creation of medical devices.

• Michael Porter / Professor

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.

• Richard Belzer / Stand-Up Comedian

Have you noticed that the meanest, shrillest, least compassionate and most heartless people who are well off and have all the medical coverage they'll ever need are seemingly sickened beyond cure by the notion that someone who literally cannot afford health care is somehow beneath contempt and must be vilified and humiliated?

• Virginia Postrel / Writer

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.