The American Health Care Paradox Quotes

“What are the hallmarks of a patient? Let's see - passive, helpless, things are done sequentially, and well, that is not how people recover. That is not how people learn to live the lives they want or dream of.”
― Elizabeth Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“the view that health care and social service investments may best be thought of as operating on a continuum, or perhaps even as two sides of the same coin.”
― Elizabeth Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“about reconceptualizing the way Americans think about health so as to uncover opportunities to increase the effectiveness of American health care.”
― Elizabeth Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“The US Constitution is silent on social and economic rights: there is no Constitutional guarantee of a right to education, or to old-age pensions,”
― Elizabeth Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“Whereas Sweden, Denmark, and Norway each spend 16 to 21 percent of their GDP on social welfare services (e.g., old-age assistance, housing subsidies, family supports, and employment programs), the United States spends less than 10 percent of its GDP on these services.”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“The top social needs physicians noted were fitness (75 percent of respondents), nutritional food (64 percent), employment assistance (52 percent), education (49 percent), and housing (43 percent). Physicians we”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“OECD countries other than the United States, for every dollar spent on health care, an additional two dollars was spent on social”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“for hospitals, physicians, medications, and diagnostic testing yet skimp in broad areas that are central to health, such as housing, clean water, safe food, education, and other social services. It may even be that Americans are spending large sums for health care to compensate for what they are not paying in social services—and the trade-off”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“The field of public health refers to the conditions that are not medical but that can produce or undermine health as the “social determinants of health.” These are the socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral factors that research over many decades has shown to be strong influences on health.”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“Not included as health spending are expenditures for social services and economic well-being that contribute to health,”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“French writer Alexis de Tocqueville captured this sentiment, from a foreigner’s perspective, writing in 1831 after a tour of the nascent country that “The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“These are, after all, national figures, meaning they may not reflect the experience of population subgroups, which may fare considerably better or worse than the average. The challenge of interpreting national data for a diverse population is similar in the realm of education.”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“Investments in larger systems of economic, environmental, and social support produce health and support individuals’ quest for well-being.”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“When the authors combine national expenditures in these social domains with the traditional health accounts, a dozen countries spend in aggregate a higher proportion of their gross domestic product than this nation does”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

“with the recognition that the health status of a population depends on much more than health care. In particular, they stress the powerful direct and indirect effects that social factors exert. These determinants range widely: across income, education, housing, stress, social relationships, and more.”
― Elizabeth H. Bradley, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less