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- Nov 07, 2020
Health Quotes
Health is measured in more than numbers.
These quotes move between the personal and the civic - years spent caregiving for family, running as a way to protect mental health, and a bridge metaphor used to argue that a society's health depends on its weakest members, not its averages. See our Change Quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to drive down health care costs.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.
- Good Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020