Primary Care Quotes:

If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

- William J. Clinton

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Curves, Two, Childhood, Childhood Obesity, Primary Care

If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Waiting, Looks, Cost, Scandinavia, Primary Care

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

- Jan Schakowsky

topic: Illinois, Years, Community, Primary Care, Public Housing

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

- Nancy Travis

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Independent, Doctors, Cities, Primary Care

Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.

- Bill Maher

topic: Average, Way, Rooms, Freaky, Emergency Room

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

- Caroline Criado-Perez

topic: Men, Care, Facts, Primary Care