“I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.” IfsWantYearsEnoughLastsMotherPayCuttingHavensMonthsCostTaxesSickEndureBonesIncomeAlternativesJustifyKeep GoingFuneralDreadComing BackIncome TaxMartyrdom Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.” SoulEndsDesirePassionWinningChanceFireBloodPositionCostSickIncreaseMadnessFortuneSettingSettingsTiesGamblingStakesFamily Ties Author:Matilde Serao
“At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.” PeopleIfsMenWantTodayForceHurtPayPlansCostDemandDoctorsSickSightPressureMedicineRateAvailableBillionsLatterHospitalsPollutionTaxpayersMillionaireHurricanesMedicareFeesOperatorsMedicaidSocialized MedicineEscalationDraconianMedicare And MedicaidPollution Control Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.” ChildrenCostSickIllnessWellnessCheaperTime And Money Author:Thomas Carper
“It costs money to stay healthy, but it's even more expensive to get sick.” HealthyCostSickExpensive Author:Ashleigh Brilliant
“I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.” ShouldExerciseCostSickGood Things Author:Brooke Fraser
“The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.” HeartMayMeanChildrenDoeCostDiseaseSickFolksBurningAtmosphereFuelPollutionFossilsLungsFossil FuelDumpedAsthmaHigh PricesSick Children Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTwoGoalMillionsBrokenCostSickMajorityAvailableDenyThanksFixedCoveredAmerican HistoryExpansionFoldsObamacareSubsidies Author:Jonathan Gruber