Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
Donna Edna Shalalawas the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously, she was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1988 to 1993. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Shalala currently serves as the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth14 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
We're moving very rapidly into quality measures, so that Americans can control their own health care and have a better sense of which plan will provide them with quality health care,
We can't wait for everybody in this country to get good health insurance, ... When you really want to close a health care gap and you do not have a single health care system, you go to every part of the country and have everybody pull in the same direction.
There are thousands of people each day whose lives and the quality of their health care are affected because we do not have national legislation that sets standards and establishes a set of rules that would ensure that they get quality care, ... That's more than frustrating -- that's unacceptable.
Most managed care companies want to give every piece of information,
Most of all, our health care professionals need to understand that federal law has not changed, that it continues to be illegal in the United States to prescribe marijuana.
They will help Americans to cut through all the fads and all the myths concerning our diets,
The new century brings new challenges and opportunities to improve the health of everyone in the United States, ... People not only want to live a long life, but they also want to enjoy a healthy life.
I must have helped 15 people get in the program.
It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.
Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, ... However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing results.
We want to do everything as possible to help our community and to help these young people stay on track with their plans for a college education. It's the right thing to do,
Every day that goes by means more needless new infections and more human suffering,
a step forward in the battle for our children's health and our nation's future.
at this moment, we don't need a summit.