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Health Quotes


"Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do."


"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights."


"I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism."


"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."


"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."


"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress."


"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."


"The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico."


"We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less."


"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease."


"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."


"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals."


"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."


"Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured."


"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."


"Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications."


"Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system."


"We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase."


"I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."



"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."


"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."


"As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources."


"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."


"Family, nature and health all go together."


"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."


"Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones."


"In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year."


"You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it."


"Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function."


"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system."


"It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home."


"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"


"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
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