928 private quotes tagged health

“When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.” — Katarina Witt

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“The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.” — Paul Gillmor

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“I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.” — Ruben Studdard

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“All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.” — Christopher Dodd

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“America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.” — Paul Gillmor

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“We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.” — Michael K. Simpson

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“For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.” — Louise Slaughter

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“We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.” — John Hutton

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“From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.” — John Hutton

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“Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.” — Michael K. Simpson

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“There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.” — Peter Garrett

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“Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.” — Doug E. Fresh

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“Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.” — Louise Slaughter

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“For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

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“A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.” — Patricia Hewitt

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“I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?” — Anthony Weiner

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“When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.” — Dennis Hastert

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“For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.” — Fred Thompson

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“Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.” — Karen Mills

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“Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.” — Todd Solondz

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“Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.” — Roy Ayers

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“I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.” — Robert M. Gates

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“I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.” — Laurel Clark

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