Medical Decisions Quotes

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.

People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

Health care decisions are the sole province of an individual, her family, her doctor and her faith. Fear of the law has no place in the equation.

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

President Obama and Hillary Clinton want government to run your health care. My dad believes that you and your doctor should decide your health care.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

Medical decisions ought to be made by medical doctors—not insurance companies.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

You should be able to choose which hospital you go to.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It's easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business.

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.