#healthcare

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#between #consumers #cost #death #decisive

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#guinea #guinea pigs #healthcare #keep #own

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#children #coverage #does #even #healthcare

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#dollars #healthcare #pay #sending #trillion

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#before #doctor #early #enough #getting

There’s an unfortunate hustle built into medical care, which favors doing things over not doing things. Most medical care is delivered by a provider who doesn’t know the patient and will never see him again. Doing things is more comfortable than not doing things. Doctors have much more at stake in their relationships with insurers and business managers than in their relationships with patients. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut M.D.

#business

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#affordable #all americans #bringing #cost #democrats

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#economy #education #every #healthcare #immigration

One study concluded that there were 1.7 errors per patient per day in America's ICUs. Of these errors, 29 percent could have caused clinically significant harm or death. Given that the average ICU length of stay is three days, this research suggests that nearly all patients hospitalized in the ICU sustain a potentially life-threatening mistake at some point during their stay. ↗

— Peter Pronovost

#icu #iom #medical-errors #change