# Health care

Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

## Quotes
### A

* America's health care system is second only to Japan … Canada, Sweden, Great Britain … well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!
** The Simpsons, Season 4, Episode 11: "Homer's Triple Bypass", written by Gary Apple and Michael Carrington

### D

* Part of what a doctor can give a patient is consolation and reassurance. This is not to be dismissed out of hand. My doctor doesn't literally practise faith-healing by laying on of hands. But many's the time I've been instantly 'cured' of some minor ailment by a reassuring voice from an intelligent face surmounting a stethoscope.
** Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006), ch. 5, p. 167

### K

* Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
** Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech to the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Chicago (25 March 1966), as quoted in Dan Munro, "America's Forgotten Civil Right — Healthcare", Forbes (28 August 2013). See also: Amanda Moore, "Tracking Down Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words on Health Care", Huffington Post (18 August 2013)

### L

* Importantly, socialized medicine is not about health care, it is about control. Are you going to oppose the government or defy bureaucrats when they have the power of veto over your spouse’s or children’s health care?
** Trevor Loudon, "The Fatal Flaw of Socialized Health Care", The Epoch Times (21 March 2019)

### P

* Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit.
** I bandaged him, God healed him.
** Ambroise Paré, saying inscribed on the pedestal of his statue in Laval. In 1522, near Metz, a citizen had been pierced by twelve sword thrusts and was left to die; but Paré was able to treat him: "I was his doctor, pharmacist, surgeon and cook: I bandaged him until the end of the treatment, and God healed him." — Jean-Michel Delacomptée, Ambroise Paré, La main savante (Gallimard, 2007), p. 166; originally from "Voyage d'Allemagne", Œuvres, vol. III, p. 698. Elsewhere Paré also wrote: "Preservation lies more in the divine providence than in the physician or surgeon’s advice." — Jean-Pierre Poirier, Ambroise Paré (Paris, 2006), p. 33. The sentiment is reminiscent of the Latin adage Medicus curat, natura sanat.—"The physician cures, nature heals." Variant: Je le soignay—Dieu le guérit.

### S

* How can we tolerate a situation where the children or parents of the rich get the medical attention they need in order to stay alive, while members of working-class families, who lack health insurance, have to die or needlessly suffer—or go hopelessly into debt to get the care they need? This is an outrageous injustice and it cannot be rationally defended.
** Bernie Sanders, Outsider in the White House (2015 [1997]), p. 217
* After Clinton's failure to reform our health care system, we ended up with a cumbersome, profit-driven, consumer-unfriendly, inefficient health care delivery system dominated by insurance companies. And I mean dominated.
** Bernie Sanders, Outsider in the White House (2015 [1997]), p. 298
* Physicians outside Germany before the war, in the United States in particular, were well aware of the evolving racist thrust of the health care system. They chose to remain silent.
** William E. Seidelman (1992), as quoted in Peter R. Breggin, The War Against Children (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994), ch. 7, epigraph

## See also

* Decency
* Greed
* Healthcare in Canada
* Hippocratic Oath
* Human rights
* Medical malpractice
* Medicine
* Mental health
* Physician
* Selfishness
* Social determinants of health
* Rights
* Tyranny
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Health care on Wikipedia
* The dictionary definition of health care on Wiktionary