Michael Leavitt Quotes (25 Quotes)

By the time we get to May, people will have experience with this and they'll have a much deeper understanding and those polls will have changed.

Their economies, already poor and struggling to recover from the recession, will be unable to support the regular matching payments needed to provide health care to the tens of thousands who will need it over the coming months,

A major part of our domestic plan needs to be domestic capacity, because in a pandemic, the emergency will be managed across the globe, ... Anyone with a supply produced in their country will want to keep it there.

The federal government will ensure that Texas will be reimbursed,

If we find there is human-to-human transmission anywhere, there is danger everywhere,

We are stripping away many of the eligibility and enrollment requirements normally needed to apply for federal benefits, ... No one who has been a victim of this disaster should be prevented from getting benefits they need because of government red tape.

We are here today to work on a common problem, a problem that I believe that if we work on together, we can make progress,

Three times in this century we have experienced pandemic influenza and they will come again. We must be ready,

The world looks to Broadway for the very best in musical theatre, and we want Elephant Eye to be considered a home for adventurous people who share our passion for creating it.

So it is of significant importance to both Cambodia and other countries in the region, and the United States and the nations of the world that have the capacity, to identify at the earliest possible moment when that has occurred.

We are worried about places where we are not seeing processing done with this level and degree of quality. It only takes one spark to set this virus off.

For all of us, the best defense is containment. To find it and find it soon and then work as an international community to contain it,

It's clear to me that this has been sickeningly difficult and profoundly tragic circumstance,

Once it starts, it is impossible to stop. But if we can catch it before it begins to spread widely, it can be stopped to the benefit of us all,

We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that could come as a result of the stagnant water and the conditions.

He expressed particular concern about the situation at Charity Hospital, as described by McSwain. His comment breaks my heart, ... There are tens of thousands of people doing their best to get there in a hurry.

It's still not clear exactly what medical care is most needed,

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

We received expressions of vigorous support from the vaccine industry, their willingness to aggressively help us prepare, ... We talked about the need for short-term and long-term preparations, talked about the importance of a vigorous domestic vaccine market and the need for us to be planning not just for the H5N1 (the bird flu virus), but for the long-term prospect of a pandemic.

There's little question in my mind that we will at some point see a wild bird with H5N1 enter our domain. We don't view that as a crisis we see that as a natural step along the path. It would not be unusual, seeing what's happening in the rest of the world.

If a pandemic hits our shores, it will affect almost every sector of our society, not just health care, but transportation systems, workplaces, schools, public safety and more,

Every senior will be able to get an affordable plan that will provide peace of mind.

The administration has expressed strong opposition to creating what Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt called a new Medicaid entitlement for Katrina survivors, ... immediate, comprehensive relief.

This is much more than a public health issue and it's not just an issue for those who have poultry flocks. People have to eat and therefore businesses need to ask themselves the question - how would we continue to operate, to serve our customers and the public in general, if 40 of our workforce couldn't go to work for two to four weeks. Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal government will at the last moment be able to come to the rescue will be tragically wrong.

A pandemic will cause disease outbreaks in many different communities all at the same time,