Matthew Heineman Quotes

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

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.

Our health system is broken.

There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

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

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Health has its science as well as disease

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

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.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

I believe in health care reform.