“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.” IfsTwoUseProblemCareCasesChildhoodCostPercentThirdsMedicalPrimariesExpensesCurvesCompetitorsComprehensiveObesityReconcileChargingChildhood ObesityPrimary Care Author:William J. Clinton
“Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.” ThinkingWholeChildhoodDevelopmentCostPrimariesBeneficialEarly ChildhoodPrimary Education Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.” ChildrenDreamRealityTurnsDarkWiseChildhoodCostEssentialsConsequenceCharacteristicsSubmitDefiningAlienationEffortlessDreams And RealityMerging Book:'Salem's Lot Source: 'Salem's Lot
“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.” WorldQualityChildhoodCostAdultsIllMysteriousSubstanceFedsHeroicBrutalInquisitionAiry Book:The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) Source: The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)