- Care Costs
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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
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.
- Deep Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.
- Difficult Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
- Nov 07, 2020
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.
- Health Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020