Todd Park Quotes

Every single one of us deserves access to quality, affordable health care.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

How do we crate a quality health care system that is universal?

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

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

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

In a successful health system, the proportion of per-capita health dollars used for home care, outpatient primary care, and preventive services should actually increase, not decrease, relative to those for acute hospital care.

To ensure a bright and healthy future for hardworking Georgians, we must increase access to quality, affordable health care.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

[Public Health] means the saving and lengthening of lives of thousands of citizens, the extension of the vigorous working period well into old age, and the prevention of inefficiency, misery, and suffering. These advances can be made by organized social effort. Public health is purchasable.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.

I think we need more community health programs and we need to develop programs that are low-cost.