Healthcare Administration Quotes

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

Many sections of our country and many groups of our citizens suffer from diseases the eradication of which are mere matters of administration and moderate expenditure. Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.

The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who's coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her name is Seema Verma, a brilliant young woman, she made Indiana - healthy Indiana work so that actually low-income people in Indiana, actually have real healthcare coverage that they get access to a doctor. Those kinds of reforms on the state level we want see happen in all 50 states.

My background is in health care.

Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

My career goal is to work as a liaison between organized medicine, government, and third-party payers.

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.