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Health Quotes
"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone."
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"I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company."
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"Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries."
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"Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard."
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"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
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"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."
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"Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence."
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"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination."
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"It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it."
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"I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care."
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"Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."
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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."
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
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"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"
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"Numerous studies have proven that physical health and longevity are linked to eating a balanced diet, maintaining proper weight, exercising regularly, abstinence and proper sexual conduct, avoiding tobacco and alcohol, maintaining a clean and hygienic living and working environment, knowing and keeping track of your health status all the time. How do you rate yourself on all these?"
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"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get."
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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."
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
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"Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life."
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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?"
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"In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services."
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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."
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"There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers."
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"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."
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"As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation."
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"Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it."
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"With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails."
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"Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country."
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"During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state."
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"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care."
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"Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well."
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"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."
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"It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought."
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"I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year."
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"We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does."
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