In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
Bill GatesThose who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.
Barack ObamaI am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
Terry PratchettMedicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon BonaparteThey certainly give very strange names to diseases.
PlatoI always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
Ariana GrandeI think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
Bill GatesFor what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia WoolfYou know we’re going to control the insurance companies.
Joe BidenKeep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
HippocratesIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence NightingaleA doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Henny YoungmanI will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
Barack ObamaI have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillaryExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HippocratesI do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.
Elizabeth KennyWho of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, ‚Well, I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this?‘ Let’s eliminate all of that.
Kamala HarrisAmerica doesn’t have health insurance.
Joe BidenThe fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.
Jimmy CarterAfter a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
Barack ObamaObamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.
John KennedyIf a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Florence NightingaleThe ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
Bill GatesEvery nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
Florence NightingaleIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HippocratesI recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George CarlinYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BonoFor Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
Bill GatesThe Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Bill GatesIn 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 GatesI’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
Billy GrahamI wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
Stephen HawkingThe idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
BonoAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoWe can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack ObamaNinety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
Bill GatesI break orbital bones.
Conor McGregorSome very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
Bill GatesI think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya AngelouI am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Alexander the GreatHealth is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.
Mark ZuckerbergTreatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
Bill GatesSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BonoEach doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.
Jurgen KloppI see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
Pope FrancisThe worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
Bill GatesWe’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.
Kamala HarrisInformation, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
Narendra ModiDoctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon BonaparteGetting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
Erma BombeckWise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence NightingaleThe fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
Bill GatesThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireWhen you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.
John KennedyPanic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
Elizabeth KennyI believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
Stephen HawkingIn order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.
Bill GatesDon’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim RohnThe Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.
Jimmy CarterIn every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam Chomsky