Rationing Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Rationing Quotes from famous persons: Jeff Bezos, Jason Fried, Robert Powell, Richard Lamm, Donald Berwick. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Rationing Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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A life of stasis would be population control, combined

A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you’ll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn’t sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren‘s grandchildren to live in.

2

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

3

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

4

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

5

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul‘ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

Donald Berwick

6

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school – car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government‘s price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

7

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president‘s government takeover.

8

Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.

9

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Charles Krauthammer

10

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

Vivienne Westwood

11

I don’t like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Omar Torrijos Herrera

12

We all know what happens with socialized medicine: rationing and stagnant care.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

13

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.

14

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

Lee Harvey Oswald

15

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life… Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

Ezekiel Emanuel

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I’m a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school – Prior Park College in Bath – my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: ‘In arrears.’

Cameron Mackintosh

17

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

18

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

19

When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.

20

New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey.

Thomas Hardiman