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“Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.”

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Author:Wendy Davis

“We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.”

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Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”

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Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.”

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Author:Luis Gutierrez

“Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.”

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Author:Cliff Stearns

“We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974

“Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.”

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Author:Tom Ridge

“No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.”

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Author:T. Colin Campbell

“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.”

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Author:Ron Wyden

“Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.”

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Author:Tim Walberg

“In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.”

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Author:Atul Gawande

“If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.”

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Author:Andrew Lansley

“We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.”

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Author:Kent Conrad

“People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.”

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Author:Mike Conaway

“Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.”

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Author:Kendrick Meek

“Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.”

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Author:Phil Robertson

“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.”

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Author:Anna Holmes

“Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.”

“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

“It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.”

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Author:Paul Gillmor

“I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.”

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Author:Michael Bennet

“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”

“You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.”

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Author:Cory Booker

“If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.”

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Author:Tim Wise

“One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.”

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Author:Anne Wojcicki

“I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.”

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Author:Nouriel Roubini

“The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.”

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Author:Glenn Thompson

“At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.”

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Author:Billy Bragg

“When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.”

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Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.”

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Author:Don Lemon

“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”

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Author:Irwin Redlener

“If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.”

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Author:Irwin Redlener

“I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.”

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Author:Tipper Gore

“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.”

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Author:Michael Porter

“Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.”

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Author:Michael Porter

“The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.”

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Author:Ina May Gaskin

“Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.”

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Author:Emily Levine

“American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.”

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Author:Valerie Jarrett

“A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.”

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Author:Fred Thompson

“The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?”

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Book:On call: political essays

Source: On call: political essays

“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.”

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