#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

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#abuse #consumers #contributor #costs #goods

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

— Dave Reichert

#children #coverage #does #even #healthcare

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

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

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data. ↗

— Peter Pronovost

#quality #change

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

I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. ↗

— Max Baucus

#believe #companies #consumers #employers #everybody

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!' ↗

— John Boehner

#bill #buzz #healthcare #healthcare bill #interests

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes. ↗

— John Boehner

#call #cap #coming #costs #debt