97 Health Sector Quotes

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Famous Health Sector Quotes

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state. — Monica Crowley

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population. — Hans Rosling

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time — C. Everett Koop

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. — Mike Ferguson

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. — Winston Churchill

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. — Will Durant

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism. — Vladimir Lenin

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. — Shirley Chisholm

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. — Tom Harkin

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. — John Doolittle

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. — Benjamin Carson

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy. — Joycelyn Elders

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. — Wendell Berry

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. — Hippocrates

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Health Care Quotes

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it — Maimonides

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. — Mark Twain

Health sector quote I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care. — Kofi Annan

Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings. — Jill Stein

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. — A. B. Simpson

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. - Walter Cronkite

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. — Walter Cronkite

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. — Thomas Jefferson

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state. — Shirley Chisholm

Health Care System Quotes

So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful migration will be reduced to zero. —

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford. — Richard M. Nixon

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! — Matt Groening

Health sector quote Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. — Allen West

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system. — Bernie Sanders

the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep. — Matthew Walker

Health sector quote Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. — Andrew Weil

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away. — Mike Huckabee

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. — Michelle Obama

Health Workers Quotes

Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better. — Jesse Ventura

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year. — Arlen Specter

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure. — Valerie Jarrett

Health sector quote I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers. — Susan Collins

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth. — Liya Kebede

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work? — Mark T Bertolini

Health sector quote Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.
Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? — Bill Gates

We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society. — Nur Muhammad Taraki

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. — Charles Darwin

Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better. — Reggie Fils-Aime

Human Health Quotes

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. — Queen Elizabeth II

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison

Health is the greatest of human blessings. — Hippocrates

Health sector quote Happiness is the highest form of health.
Happiness is the highest form of health.

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs. — Alicia Silverstone

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. — Hippocrates

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott

Health sector quote He who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, has everything.
He who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, has everything.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen

Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights. — Hugo Chavez

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being - Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being — Plato

Health Professionals Quotes

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women — Michel Odent

I have spent millions of dollars and the majority of the money has gone to my team of 30 professionals doing extensive research on everything that’s ever been published on health and lifespan. — Bryan Johnson

Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal. — Lissa Rankin

Health sector quote I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health.
I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology. — David Berman

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives. — Chogyam Trungpa

Health sector quote Feeling healthy and feeling good about yourself is not a luxury, It's an absolute necessity
Feeling healthy and feeling good about yourself is not a luxury, It's an absolute necessity

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. — Charles Schumer

We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves. — Andrew Saul

If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work. — Andrew Saul

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care. — Glenn Thompson

Health Reform Quotes

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. — Dianne Feinstein

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times. — Lawrence Reed

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach. — Bernie Sanders

Health sector quote Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it. — Rick Santorum

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind. — Valerie Jarrett

Health sector quote Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people. — Jay Rockefeller

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. — Ronald Reagan

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty. — Bill McCollum

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change. — Mike Pence

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More Health Sector Quotes

Digital acceleration also occurs in the health sector. Currently the interaction between doctors and patients is facilitated through digital platforms. This can increase the quality of health access especially for areas with limited medical personnel and promote the growth and development of startups in the health sector. — Joko Widodo

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. — Paul Gillmor

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. — John Zimmerman

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people. — Harry Belafonte

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. — Christopher Bond

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture. — Wayne Pacelle

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors. — Eric Ries

I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is. — Paul Farmer

We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system. — Stephen Harper

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs. — Jerry Costello

I think, you know, what we've had for many years is a federal government that's not particularly concerned with the structure of the economy at all, just looking at the basic rules. I think we're going to see a different approach under Donald Trump with more kind of specific concern for the health of the manufacturing sector. I'm not necessarily sure that's a bad thing. — Edward Alden

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing. — Anthony Bourdain

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need. — Ruth Simmons

Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance. — Joseph Stiglitz

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors. — Bill Gates

It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better. — Ann Coulter

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. — Paul Farmer

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. — John G. Zimmerman

Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions. — Michael Bloomberg

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed. — Avi Rubin

World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission. — Kofi Annan

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. — Geoff Mulgan

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