“God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.” HumansLooksPersonsWholeHandsEyeDoctorsEarsMedicinePatientTreatedHealth CareNosesBlessThroatPhysiciansGod BlessWhole PersonSubtext Author:Anna Quindlen
“America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.” CareAmericaCrisisHealth CareWellnessNeglectPreventionHealth Care SystemHealth System Author:Tom Harkin
“... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.” IfsKindChildrenCareWantedPoorDealsMorningMastersSurvivalSlaverySlaveIgnorantGet UpHealth CareWelfareClothingsAmendmentsShelterBondage Author:Joycelyn Elders
“Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.” CareLawDecisionCourtAccessScalesHealth CareSweepingWadeRoe V WadeReproductive HealthCourt Decision Author:Nancy Northup
“I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.” YearsI CanCareLeadershipJusticeResponsibilityLeaderHistoryGenerationsHealthIntegrityEthicsHealth CareDisabilityUniformsTaking ResponsibilityFacilityLack Of Integrity Author:Eric Shinseki
“Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.” KnowsCareNextWaitingHealth CareDo You KnowExamIrsProstate Author:Jay Leno
“I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.” WellsCareGrowsGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpHealth CareCanadaGood HealthEducation SystemMulticulturalGood EducationGood Health Care Author:Ryan Gosling
“What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.” PeopleIfsHardCareJobsAmericaClassMiddleHard WorkBenefitsHealth CareDecentMiddle ClassGood JobGet Ahead Author:Barack Obama
“Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care.” WorldArtCareSecretHealingConsciousnessPracticeEventsAncientMythAround The WorldHealth CareThemeLife And DeathHealerEmergenceSecret Life Author:Jeanne Achterberg
“Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.” WayCareFeltIndiaHealth CareHealth Care System Author:Shaffi Mather
“If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.” IfsProblemGovernmentCareImagineHealth CareAgencyResolveGovernment Agencies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.” IfsGivingWellsHas BeensCareSimpleClassBreakMiddleFairsMedicalIncomeHealth CareMiddle ClassWealthyJust BeingEntitledPropositionsAdequateTaxpayers Author:Joe Biden
“The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.” BodyCareChallengesDecisionPolicyPositionHealth CareBoardsDecision MakingExploding Author:Arthur Caplan
“There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.” PeopleWayCareLinesAbilityMoneyPayClassSeeingOne ThingCoachesPrioritiesHealth CarePerksAmenities Author:Arthur Caplan
“In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.” YearsMaySaidCareNextHouseAmountNeededIncreaseBillionsAdministrationHealth CarePlusRepresentativesVeteranNext YearApprovedHouse Of Representatives Author:Doc Hastings
“Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.” PeopleNeedsCareDirectCompetitionEnvironmentalProtectionHealth CareEnvironmental ProtectionMilitarism Author:Petra Kelly
“I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.” BelieveCareI BelieveUniversalI Believe InHealth CareNot AfraidUniversal Health Care Author:Stephen Hawking
“We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?” NeedsLongCareAmericaMillionsHonestCostCriminalsQuittingHealth CareWelfareImmigrantsIllegalExpensesIllegal ImmigrantsResidency Author:Newt Gingrich
“A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.” WayNeedsKindHelpingCareWantedQualityHealthNeededWasteNotionPatientFinancialBoxesComplicatedHealth CareWheelsHospitalsIncentivesAffordableInfectionProvidersAffordable Care Act Author:Barack Obama
“The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.” LooksImportantCarePresidentClassClearEnvironmentEconomicStreetsMiddlePolicyHealthWallAreasCongressProtectionRecoveryReformHealth CareMiddle ClassEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.” PeopleBelieveEndsCountryCareEarthMovingHealthMajorsSpendingHealth CareGuaranteesMedicare Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.” IfsKnowsWantCareSchoolJobsSpiritLostPayEducationBreakHealthTaxesOrdinaryMercyUniversalWorkersHealth CareBossWagesRuinedEmployersPublic SchoolBargainingFree EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Michael Lind
“If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.” IfsCareWhiteEducationHealthHigherRepublicanCostTaxesRaisesDemocratAccessHealth CareWealthyTexasGovernorsDecreaseHigher Education Author:Calvin Jillson
“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.” ThinkingWorldGivingCountryCareGivenCommunityAbilityEducationFocusHealthInternetAccessLocalsOur CountryHealth CareFortunateBetter PlaceConnectingGiving BackSan FranciscoOur CommunityLocal CommunityInternet AccessConnecting The World Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help our constituents have better access to high-quality health care in America.” HelpingCareAmericaOpportunityChallengesCommonQualityHealthSolutionsPatientAccessCommon SenseReformHealth CareObamacareConstituentsHigh QualityQuality Health Care Author:John Boehner
“I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.” IfsHas BeensCareHealthHealth CareNutsParalysis Author:Michael Graves
“No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.” KnowsShouldCareHealthPoliticianHealth CareDelayAudacity Author:Nancy Northup
“Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.” CarePresidentEconomyWifeAmountSizeHealth CareItalianLots Of Money Author:Jack Kemp
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.” CareHealth CareWellnessPrevention Author:Leroy Hood
“Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."” CareHealth CareIntertwined Author:Angela Braly
“People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.” PeopleNeedsWellsHas BeensCareTalkingCompetitionHealth CareDelivery Author:Angela Braly
“When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.” PeopleCareOpportunityGreaterPlansPursueHealth CareGet BetterWellnessOwnershipHealth Plan Author:Mike Pence
“I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.” PeopleGivingTryingHumansChildrenI CanCountryShowsCareKidsViewsPovertyCollegeSucceedGiving UpPoint Of ViewHealth CareGuaranteesOld PeopleGiving Up Is Not An Option Author:Bernie Sanders
“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.” WorldWantLooksSaidHardDoneCareFightingSidesClassMiddleEasierCostDemandPressureDebtCoreTricksEnormousIncomeHealth CareOfficialsRisingMiddle ClassExpensesTrapsRelianceReducingBleedingMortgageStagnantPublic OfficialsRethinkingHealth Care CostsFighting BackEasier Said Than Done Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.” WorldShouldMeanChildrenDoeI CanCountryCareAbleSchoolBeliefReligiousShould HaveTradeIraqHealth CarePlanesBombsSaddamHusseinPublic LifePassengersReligious BeliefLife MeansWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.” PeopleWantCareComplicatedHealth CareExpensiveSparks Author:William J. Clinton
“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsChildrenTwoWarDoneProblemCareYoungWorrySupportViolenceConflictPercentResourcesThirdsVictimAccessSupposed To BeHealth CareLabourAssetsYoung WomenFundamentalismBeatenDomestic ViolenceProstitutionMen WomenRecessionsPrematureAccess To EducationVictims Of War Author:Isabel Allende
“I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache drawn on his upper lip. Is that what Hitler is really known for, his health-care plan? To quote Bill Maher, "I haven't seen this many pissed-off old white people since they cancelled 'Murder She Wrote.'"” PeopleLittlesStatesCareWhiteUnitedKnownUnited StatesPlansHavensMurderBillsLipsDebateHealth CareFascinatedPostersPissed OffMustache Author:David Sedaris
“Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.” WritingIdeasDoneEnoughCareSchoolChoicesEnergyPlansPolicyMinesRepublicanIndependenceHealth CareForeign PolicyObamacareOne LinerTalkersSlickEnergy IndependenceSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."” IfsThinkingIdeasCareHoursSittingHealth CareGood IdeasBullshit Author:Marc Maron
“I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.” PeopleKnowsTryingHappensCareWantedFormSocialJusticeSocial JusticeSocialismHealth CareConstructs Author:Assata Shakur
“Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do.” KnowsCareTalkingAcceptingKnow HowStupidNewsStandingHotSillyHealth CareReportersProposal Author:Dave Barry
“I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.” LongEnoughCareAmericaUniversalAssumingHealth CareTerrificAmusingUniversal Health Care Author:Anna Quindlen
“Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.” MadeCareCommunityLeaderIssuesMovementParticularTypeGayRacismPoliceSilentInjusticeStatementsHealth CareCriedPastorGay MarriagePolice BrutalityBrutalityAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Otis Moss III
“Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.” WantProblemCarePovertySolveHealth CarePutin Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.” NeedsCareAgreeAccessMedicalDisasterHealth CarePregnancy Author:Sandra Fluke
“A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.” MayEnoughCareErrorsPatientMedicalSuitsHealth CareGuaranteesHospitalsContractingMalpractice Author:Andrew Saul
“One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.” PeopleIfsMenShouldPlayCareSuccessfulParticularExpressionReaderMessagesMen And WomenOrganizationGenderFocusedGuidesAccessDebateTraditionalHealth CareAgain And AgainTransAdvocatingAdvocacy Author:Dean Spade