928 private quotes tagged health

“Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.” — Barbara Boxer

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“The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.” — Rowan D. Williams

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“In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.” — Frank Shorter

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“In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.” — Rowan D. Williams

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“When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.” — Gwen Moore

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“I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.” — Mandy Patinkin

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“The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.” — John Cornyn

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“We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.” — Tim Bishop

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“I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.” — Charles Kennedy

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“Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!” — Kiana Tom

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“That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.” — Malcolm Fraser

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“My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.” — Charles Kennedy

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“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.” — Jerzy Kosinski

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“I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.” — Britt Ekland

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“Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.” — Candace Bushnell

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“There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.” — Eric Ries

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“City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.” — L. Neil Smith

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“Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.” — John Shadegg

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“As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.” — Julie Bishop

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“I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.” — Maggie Q

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“We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.” — Lionel Trilling

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“People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.” — Frank Bruno

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“So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.” — Paul Farmer

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