“In an unlikely pairing, Hillary Clinton made an appearance this week with Newt Gingrich to push a health care plan. The press is making a big deal out this thing with Newt but, hey, if anyone knows how to appear in public with a man she can't stand, it's Hillary.” IfsKnowsMenMadeBigsCareDealsKnow HowPlansWeekPressesClintonAppearanceHeyHealth CareUnlikelyBig DealNewts Author:Jay Leno
“I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.” GovernmentCareJobsCuttingCostTaxesIncreaseRaisesDollarsBillionsHealth CareMedicareTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Robert Hurt
“Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.” StatesCareWaterScalesHealth CareMechanismInfrastructureTransportationLarge ScaleSewagePublic Transportation Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.” PeopleNeedsTryingCareJobsChoicesRightsHonestPaintingGunPreparedHealth CareAbortionGun ControlAlways TryingBetter JobsPro Choice Abortion Author:Ian Bremmer
“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.” WorldWantHumansCareJobsSocialWalksWatchesDemocracyRightsStreetsSecurityTelevisionBuildingCitizensPaperHuman RightsHealth CareBritainInvitesPapersSocial SecurityPensionGreat BritainVenezuelaTrue Democracy Author:Hugo Chavez
“We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidCareSchoolYoungParentChurchDealsSituationIssuesTeachingHealthyGunAgreeCaringHealth CareAddresses Author:Joycelyn Elders
“My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure that prevention plays a big part in health care. In the case of guns, prevention means we prevent homicides and devastating, expensive gun injuries by preventing those who shouldn't have guns from getting their hands on guns.” PeopleMeanPlayHandsBigsCareChallengesCasesGunAvailableAccessHealth CareExpensiveInjuryEducatePreventingPreventionHomicide Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to show people that if some activists, if some revolutionaries, if some street organizers from the hood can come together and put together a preliminary program to give health care to independent artists.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingShowsCareTogetherArtistPlansStreetsMovementProgramIndependentUnionsHealth CareRevolutionaryKicksActivistHoodOrganizerGrassroots Author:Immortal Technique
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.” PeopleDifferentFactsCareAbilityEconomyRiskHealth Care Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.” PeopleHas BeensCareAbleGrowingCostHealth CareConsensus Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.” NeedsStatesGovernmentCareMotherUnitedPayUnited StatesSupportBabyMedicineTrainPatientScalesHealth CareFundProvidingFacilityHivState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentNeed Money Author:Annie Lennox
“With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.” FirstsStatesGovernmentCareNamesGrowthTermPartyMistakeEconomicProductsVictoryInvolvedDemocraticShouldersOccasionsBarackHealth CareAgendasExpensesPortionsGrossChipsExpandingCliffsDemocratic PartyEconomic GrowthMarginsEntitlementGross Domestic ProductOverreachingFiscal Cliff Author:George Will
“President Obama shopped at a book store to help support Small Business Saturday. He bought fifteen books. His tax policies and his health care law have been so brutal on small businesses the only way they can survive is if he shops there personally.” IfsWayHas BeensBookHelpingCareLawPresidentSupportPolicyTaxesStoresHealth CareShopsPresident ObamaBrutalFifteenSaturdaySmall Business Author:Argus Hamilton
“As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.” BelieveCareHealth CareAffordableAffordable Health Care Author:Barack Obama
“Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.” MayTwoProblemSeemsGovernmentCareForceCommonIssuesHigherErrorsDemocratReformHealth CareOperationsRealmsRisingArenaProposeWrong ThingsCompoundsAmerican LifeHigher EducationHigh PricesRising Prices Author:Mona Charen
“[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.” UseCareEnergyPresidentLike YouSpendingHealth CareAttackingProposal Author:Kathleen Sebelius
“So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.” MenGivingYearsLooksMomentsCarePastGuyPresidentHoursWhiteWeekGeniusSpeechHealth CarePresident ObamaCoatsSeizingDays Of The WeekSeize The MomentWhite Coat Author:Mark Steyn
“President Obama met with ten House Democrats opposed to the health care bill. He did all he could to get their votes. He promised to campaign for them in their districts and when that didn't work, he threatened to campaign for them in their districts.” CareHousePresidentMetsTenVoteBillsDemocratCampaignsHealth CarePresident ObamaThreatened Author:Argus Hamilton
“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.” NeedsLittlesStillsTwoStoriesMightCareAmericaFallStreetsSceneDecidedScreensBrandsBarackHealth CareGreekPlotShoreSplitsGreeceSummitCablesRiotEntitlementPlungeBrand NewEnterprising Author:Mark Steyn
“President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.” MindEndsCareWantedPresidentChangedRepublicanNuclearReformHealth CareIranPresident ObamaThreatenedSummitInputThursdayBipartisanLawmakersHealth Care Reform Author:Argus Hamilton
“[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.” GovernmentCarePlansPromiseCostTaxesSellsDebtReformBarackHealth CareVotersCoverageHealth Care ReformAmerican Voters Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as opposed to the Republican health care plan, where an accountant would stand between you and your health care.” SaidCareLastsNightPlansRepublicanDoctorsDemocraticHealth CareLast NightBureaucratsMccainAccountants Author:Jay Leno
“It seems The Journal of Neurology reports that the longer you smoke, the less likely you are to develop Parkinson's disease. So what are they telling us? Follow me guys. Remember, a couple of months ago, doctors said drinking a glass of alcohol every day was good for your heart. Smoking prevents Parkinson's disease. Marijuana is good for glaucoma. Sex is good for your prostate. You know, screw health care. Let's party!” KnowsHeartSaidSeemsCareRememberGuySexPartyMonthsCoupleDiseaseDoctorsDrinkingGlassesAlcoholSmokeHealth CareSmokingReportsMarijuanaJournalScrewsFollow MeNeurologyParkinsonParkinson'sProstateGlaucoma Author:Jay Leno
“I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.” CareFailingCongressBillionsHealth CareAshamedVeteranBarrelsPorkSubsidiesPork Barrel Author:John McCain
“I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.” HardCareIndividualPraiseHealth CareMandatesUnconstitutional Author:Michele Bachmann
“Humanity is no longer the same. Its needs are no longer the same, and the needs of all around the world are recognizable. We need jobs. We need food. We need shelter. We need health care. We need education. These few things are the absolute necessities of all people everywhere, and yet even in the most-developed world, like America and Europe, no one has all of these things by right, unless they have money - and this is the rub.” PeopleWorldNeedsCareJobsAmericaHumanityEuropeAbsolutesAround The WorldHealth CareShelter Author:Benjamin Creme
“There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.” IfsThinkingEndsProblemCareInternetComplexesHealth CareDimensionsCategoriesProblem SolvingPhysiciansInfrastructureComplex ProblemsBiotechnology Author:Clayton Christensen
“Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.” MayStatesCareAblePresidentDarkPartyRepublicanRedImpactDemocraticReformBarackHealth CareRepublican PartyComprehensiveObamacareLegislatureHaltPresident Barack ObamaHealth Care ReformMedicaidState LegislaturesNotice Me Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsKindDreamWould BeCareOpinionSickHealth CareI Had A DreamTravesty Author:Eve Ensler
“Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.” WellsLightGovernmentCarePresidentBillsAgentsHealth CarePresident ObamaSmarterBureaucracyBulbsIrsLight BulbGovernment Bureaucracy Author:Michele Bachmann
“Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.” NeedsLittlesCareCoursesToo MuchMetsHealth CareHousingGood HealthGood FoodGood EducationGood Health Care Author:Satish Kumar
“I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.” WayNeedsCareGrewConversationGrew UpTablesPatientDinnerHealth CareInadequateDinner Table Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
“I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.” BelieveStillsCareOpportunityIndustryChinaAdministrationHealth CareBranchesHotelShoppingAmbitiousTransportTaxi Author:Zhang Xin
“Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.” WantCareGuySupportResearchFoundationEntrepreneurHealth CareChineseCemetery Author:Zhang Xin
“I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.” ThinkingWayWould BeCareUniversalIncreaseTradeHealth CareAgreementMinimumStraightforwardOpposingMinimum WageReceptivityTrade AgreementsNaftaUniversal Health Care Author:Russ Feingold
“Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoHelpingBigsCareFacesNumbersClassIssuesCuttingMiddleTaxesElectionClintonHealth CareRanMiddle ClassDeficitTax Cuts Author:Russ Feingold
“We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.” PeopleGivingWellsLongWould BeCareRunningRichStreetsEffectsWallCoupleOrdinaryConsequenceAccessSavedReformHealth CareOur FutureLong RunsBankersJeopardyHealth Care Reform Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I don't think if we had been able to make that choice rationally, we would have said that's what we want to do. We would have said: "Can't we save the banks and solve our health care problems?" The answer is yes. You could have.” IfsThinkingWantSaidProblemCareAbleChoicesAnswersSolveHealth Care Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.” YearsStillsCareSocialDealsPayMillionsAliveBuildingComfortArmyVictimDollarsSouthBillionsHealth CareJapanSurvivingKoreaSocial ServiceTraffickingBrothelsSouth Korea Author:Elise Hu
“Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.” YearsTwoEndsHelpingCareLawPresidentPayPlansTaxesCongressMedicalHealth CareTwo YearsSomething NewDevicesPresident ObamaDelayed Author:Susan Davis
“It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.” IfsGivingYearsEndsCareCompanyShareSecurityChangedProgramProtectionOilHeyDataHealth CareLengthLegislationBansLiabilityCyberCyber SecurityExportingCyber Attacks Author:Susan Davis
“Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.” PeopleCountryStatesCareEarthAmericaBeliefUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesMajorsSpendingFranceHealth CareCanadaHealthcareUnited States Of America Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.” EndsCareUniversalHealth CareDisagreementCoverage Author:Hillary Clinton
“I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.” IdeasCareAmericaWaitingLaborHealth CareAccurateCommitteesAffordableMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Education Author:Bernie Sanders
“I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here - I helped write that bill - but by moving forward, rallying the American people, I do believe we should have health care for all.” PeopleShouldWritingBelieveCareMovingShould HaveBillsMoving ForwardHealth CareRallying Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.” ThinkingCareJobsStrongPresidentEconomyProgressElementsUniversalPaidIncomeHealth CareRisingAgendasOfferingCoverageStrong EconomyUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.” CareCompanyDrugUniversalHealth CareVengeanceCoverageInsurance CompaniesDrug CompaniesUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“I did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the bill that I wanted, but probably the most comprehensive V.A. health care bill in the modern history of this country.” CountryCareWantedTogetherHouseModernBillsHealth CareComprehensiveMccainModern History Author:Bernie Sanders
“You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.” TryingYearsHas BeensCountryUseCareAblePartyTakenExampleStudentsRepublicanTraditionInstitutionsSevenVariousUnhappyMiserableAdministrationBarackHealth CareEmsAgendasRepublican PartyLoanSeven YearsEducation SystemHealth Care SystemStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh