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Health Quotes
"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead."
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"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare."
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"One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure."
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"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small."
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"As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans."
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"There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system."
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"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist."
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"The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates."
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"I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on tocommit suicide, and others were argumentative."
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"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
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"Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health-and create profitable diseases and dependences-by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving."
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"Avoid working in windowless environments for good health."
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"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."
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"The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year."
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"The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom."
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"The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse."
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"Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness."
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"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."
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"Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals."
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"In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?"
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"A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access."
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"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."
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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
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"You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care."
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"One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage."
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"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while."
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"When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'"
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"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world."
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"Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs."
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"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"
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"You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that."
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"What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country."
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"I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup."
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"The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty."
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"It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing."
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"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents."
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"From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy."
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"Health is the core of human development."
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