“If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?” PeopleIfsEndsHomeCareParticularBenefitsWorkersHealth CareEngagedKnowledge Workers Author:Mark T Bertolini
“What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.” PeopleIfsHardCareJobsAmericaClassMiddleHard WorkBenefitsHealth CareDecentMiddle ClassGood JobGet Ahead Author:Barack Obama
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else.” PeopleStatesCareJobsAmericaUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesBenefitsCreatingHealth CareUnited States Of AmericaHigh Technology Author:Tim Ryan
“The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.” ChildrenCareNumbersCostBenefitsCriticalHealth CarePregnancyProvidingReductionContraceptionHealth Benefits Author:Kathleen Sebelius
“The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.” IfsPersonsHardCareHard WorkHealthyBenefitsRewardsHealth CareHealthcareUnhealthyHealth Care SystemHealth SystemHealthy Person Author:Mike Huckabee
“The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.” MayBigsCareTaxesMembersBenefitsLaborUnionsDemocratCurrentsGoldenHealth CareFeaturesGenerousCrucialProposalIdeologicalBankruptcySteepPatronPayoffBanditsExemptionTakeovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do.” PeopleThinkingImportantGovernmentCareSpeakCommunityCircumstancesGayBenefitsHealth CareSpeaks OutHealth Care System Author:Chelsea Handler
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeCountryStatesCareEarthDifficultUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleCollegeBecomingBenefitsMajorsPaidUniversityMedicalOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareGuaranteesMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we repeal [ Barack Obama's health care law] as Donald [Trump] has proposed, all of those benefits I have mentioned are lost to everybody...and then we will have to start all over again.” IfsCareLawLostTrumpBenefitsBarackHealth Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.” WayWantCareCompanyBecomingBenefitsDoctorsHealth CareConsumersHospitalsCompetingMonopolyProvidersInsurance CompaniesFavoritism Author:Paul Ryan
“Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.” CareEnergyEconomyCostBenefitsClimateClimate ChangeHealth CareCombatPollutionShiftingReducingStrengtheningRenewable EnergyHealth Care Costs Author:David Suzuki
“And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.” EnoughFactsCareHurtKeysBenefitsLosingBillsReformHealth CareUpsetGet AwayDiscontentCoverageHealth Care Reform Author:Juan Williams