"Medical costs are of concern, both in..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam
Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
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“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”
“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”
“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
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“I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.”
“The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.”
“I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.”
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“Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good trend of the future. But we do have to have a system that, as output of goods and services keeps increasing per capita, that it takes care of the people who are willing to work and really are not getting by very well with a family on a 40-hour week.”
“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.”
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.”