928 private quotes tagged health

“The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.” — James Otis

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“The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.” — Thomas Frank

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“Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.” — Thomas Frank

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“Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.” — Ivan Illich

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“The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.” — Anna Quindlen

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“As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.” — Susan Faludi

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“It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.” — Martha Plimpton

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“Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?” — David Suzuki

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“My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.” — Maurice Sendak

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“I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.” — Bell Hooks

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“Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.” — David Suzuki

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“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.” — Stephen Harper

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“Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.” — Helen Reddy

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“Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.” — Donald Berwick

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“I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.” — Jesse Jackson

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“Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.” — Betty White

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“What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.” — Rick Scott

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“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” — Bobby Scott

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“If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?” — Al Sharpton

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“The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.” — Mehmet Oz

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“With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.” — Ron Wyden

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“Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.” — Ron Wyden

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“The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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