Charles Boustany Quotes

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

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.

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.

By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.

If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

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.

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better outcomes and allow for more sustainable healthcare spending.

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Cost containment too often becomes care containment. And it affects the least powerful population sector with the quietest voice.

No one wants to go back to the time when insurance companies decided who would get health care.

We have to understand that in this country, it's unacceptable for anyone to be sick and in need of care and not able to get that care simply because they don't have enough money.