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“I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.”

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Author:Karen Duffy

“The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.”

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Author:Paul Gillmor

“At Revolution Health Group we will put consumers back at the center of the system by giving them more choice, control and convenience.. while building the first comprehensive, consumer-driven health care company.”

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Author:Steve Case

“Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.”

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Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.”

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Author:Michel Martelly

“Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.”

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Author:Rod Blagojevich

“I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.”

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Author:Lamar Alexander

“Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs”

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Author:Gary Miller

“In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services”

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Author:Gary Miller

“Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.”

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Author:Larry Page

“In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.”

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Author:Jim Ryun

“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”

“Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America. The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America. They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil.”

“I believe health care is a civil right.”

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Author:Dennis Kucinich

“[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.”

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Author:Murray Rothbard

“Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.”

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Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.”

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Author:Mitch Daniels

“As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.”

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Author:Bill Richardson

“But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.”

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Author:Laura Ingraham

“Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.”

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Author:Tracy Kidder

“Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money - hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”

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Book:Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Source: Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

“Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.”

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Author:Judy Biggert

“As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.”

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Author:Jan Schakowsky

“Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.”

“The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.”

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Author:Ruben Hinojosa

“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.”

“We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised”

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Author:Dick Durbin

“We will have health care reform in America.”

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Author:Dick Durbin

“A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.”

“As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.”

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Author:Patricia Hewitt

“It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.”

“In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.”

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Author:John Conyers

“I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care”

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Author:James Q. Wilson

“I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.”

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Author:Ted Strickland

“I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.”

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Author:Gary Bauer

“From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.”

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Author:John Shadegg

“Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.”

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Author:John Shadegg

“The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.”

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Author:John Shadegg

“What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”

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Author:C. Everett Koop

“Health care should be affordable for everyone.”

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Author:Ed Pastor

“General Motors spends more on health care than steel”

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Author:Kathleen Sebelius

“But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care”

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Author:Kathleen Sebelius

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