Medicine Quote by Matthew Heineman

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs,…

— Robert Reich

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet,…

— Paul Gillmor

In a country as rich and remarkable as the United States, it is shameful that so many hardworking people have to ration their medicines,…

— Raphael Warnock

Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay…

— John Lewis

What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

— David Shulkin

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as…

— Atul Gawande

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and…

— Malcolm Forbes

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments…

— Mitch Kapor

We all pay too much for health care. Far too many do not go to the doctor or fill a prescription because it simply…

— Andy Beshear

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between…

— Benjamin Carson

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

— John Kitzhaber

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs,…

— Judy Biggert