Political Quotes

“The progress of medicine in the social and economic field has been slow, halting, and uncertain in direction, and constantly thwarted by special interests. All people, doctors and patients alike, agree that medical care should be of the best quality that our medical knowledge permits, and that it must be dispensed with skill and judgment on the part of doctors, but how it shall be equitably, efficiently and economically disturbed to all people, and how it shall be paid for, are highly controversial and emotionally charged issues. Public discontent with the medical situation has been boiling up for more than a quarter-century. Survey after survey has disclosed a distressing amount of unmet medical need in this, the most opulent nation on earth. The introduction in Congress of health bill after health bill is indication enough that our lawmakers have been aware that the voters want something done to give them better medical care. The year of Dr. Means' statement? 1953. It is time for Congress to enact now health care reform that guarantees affordable private insurance for all Americans.”