3 December 2020 Max Baucus Health reform is an essential part of restoring America’s economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
3 December 2020 Sallust As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
3 December 2020 Jim Ramstad American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
3 December 2020 Christopher Bond Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
3 December 2020 Bobby Jindal When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call ‘external costs,’ like the health effects of air and water pollution.
3 December 2020 William Scranton And if you’re not going to have a clear health threat, you don’t want to panic people.
3 December 2020 Steven Rattner The highest-income Americans don’t need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
3 December 2020 John Conyers Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
3 December 2020 Thomas Vilsack Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
3 December 2020 Michele Bachmann Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s health care bill.
3 December 2020 Walter Cronkite America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
3 December 2020 Adam Carolla I don’t think healthcare’s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
3 December 2020 Jonah Lomu It’s been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
3 December 2020 Aphra Behn Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
3 December 2020 Chris Chocola 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.
3 December 2020 Diane Abbott Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.
3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It’s the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well.
3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
3 December 2020 Cynthia Nixon The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
3 December 2020 Alan Thicke I’m a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
3 December 2020 Tom Petty TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
3 December 2020 Gro Harlem Brundtland This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
