“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.” LongCareMotherTermMy OwnPracticeExampleCostImpactBillsIllnessMedicalIncomeLong TermShockingPersonal ExperiencesTerminalMedical CareTerminal Illness Author:Judy LaMarsh
“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.” WorldLongCountryFactsStrongTermMoralTechnologyPolicyCostLowsResearchArgumentOppositesInvestmentDrawingDevelopingLong TermExpensiveReportsFundSustainabilityAgricultureExclusiveImperativesFundingCropsQuestionableUnsafeDeveloping CountriesSustainable Agriculture Author:Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
“Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.” LongGrowthTermInterestCuttingHigherCostApproachRateDebtSpendingCirclesLong TermRisingRejectsUnemployment80sViciousInterest RateVicious CirclesRepayment Author:Gordon Brown
“The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.” LongTermCostPopulationWelfareLong Term Author:Mark Steyn
“The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.” LongTermCostEatingAddCurrentsLong TermExpensiveFast FoodInexpensiveCheap Food Author:Eric Schlosser
“Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.” IfsKindLongBodyCareTermBrainCostEssentialsTreatsLong Term Author:Newt Gingrich
“We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.” PeopleThinkingLongTermRoomsCostInvestingAidsEnormousLong TermEtcBetter OffEmergenciesHomelessnessHivPreventionHiv AidsEmergency Room Author:Barack Obama
“Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.” PeopleLongCareTodayValuesTermHoursPayCompanyCostHealth CareLong TermShakesMinimumReducingHealth Care Costs Author:Howard Schultz
“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.” KnowsLongCareTermChallengesCostRootsHealth CareLong TermExploding Author:Fred Upton