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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
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"The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?"

"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"

"Give your choice a chance, do not give up."

"You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."

"You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!"

"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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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."


"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional."


"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."


"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."


"We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does."


"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
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