“It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.”
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It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
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