“We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, Donald Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And Mike Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.” WantNeedsKindSaidChoicesRightsTrumpVicesDebateAll KindsPresidentialCandidatesAbortionParenthoodHealthcareMikeVice PresidentPro LifePresidential CandidatePlanned ParenthoodReproductive RightsReproductive Health Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited.” CareInternationalExpensiveVietnamHealthcareClinic Author:Doug Rice
“I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and healthcare system that needs more support through all this political nonsense that we're going through.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsPoliticalStrongGrowsCommonSupportAwarenessBecomingNonsenseVery StrongHealthcareCommon ThingsNhs Author:John Newman
“If we can afford it, I personally think we should keep giving people MRIs a lot, so we can spot everything early. Our taxes should keep going towards healthcare so that people can be getting scanned regularly and checked over regularly.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingShouldTaxesSpotsKeep GoingHealthcareMri Author:John Newman
“We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!” PeopleWorldNeedsProblemBigsWaterChallengesQualityFiguresCleanClimateClimate ChangeAccessBillionsIncomeInequalityReasonableOur WorldHealthcareInnovatorsBig ProblemsClean WaterIncome InequalityWater Quality Author:Scott D. Anthony
“We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.” HumansHealthcareMedicare Author:Jill Stein
“We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.” YearsHealthcare Author:Jill Stein
“According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they deserve, but $6 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone.” StudyDeserveSoldierIraqExpensesAfghanistanHealthcareWoundedOngoingHarvardWounded Soldier Author:Jill Stein
“Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.” StillsJobsThreePovertyAverageHealthcareWages Author:Jill Stein
“In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies.” PeopleHas BeensRealBigsActionJobsLeftCommunityViewsCompanySupportEconomyFailingClimateAvailableExpensesHealthcareCrashWagesSmall BusinessPollsLoanRipTaxpayersExtremismObamacarePharmaceuticalLiving WageClimate ActionPharmaceutical CompaniesSmall Communities Author:Jill Stein
“The state of Indiana has also sought to make sure we expand alternatives in healthcare counseling for women, non-abortion alternatives, and I'm also very pleased into the fact we're well on our way to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America.” WayWellsStatesFactsAmericaBecomingAlternativesAbortionHealthcareAdoptionCounselingIndiana Author:Mike Pence
“On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.” WorldWayKindWarPastCompanyEconomyOffersBenefitsProgramCompetitionWorkersSoldierPrivilegeConnectedMedicalEmploymentWar Of The WorldsPrisonerWorld War IiHealthcareWorld War IOur PastShortageMedical Insurance Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.” MadeStillsCareAbleCompanyStepsRolesMillionsStruggleProgressTenMajorsHealthcareEmployedEmployersProvisionAffordableSteps ForwardInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care ActHealth Insurance Companies Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. [Donald] Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.” MenWantCompanyTrumpClintonHealthcareObamacare Author:Natalie Portman
“We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.” ChildrenJobsSupportHigherProjectsFoundationFundAwardsAfghanistanHealthcareScholarshipHigher Education Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I know that, you know, leaders have to lead. I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do. But for the best interest of the people of our state [Ohio], having a big mix of technology, healthcare, IT, financial services, and manufacturing is the ticket.” PeopleKnowsStatesBigsInterestLeaderTechnologyFinancialHealthcareTicketsPollsManufacturingOhioFinancial Services Author:John Kasich
“The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.” PeopleKnowsPartyIssuesStudentsRepublicanCostDrugTradeAddictionIllnessDebtMental IllnessImmigrantsHealthcareRepublican PartyPrescriptionsDrug AddictionDrug AddictPrescription Drugs Author:John Kasich
“If you can't stay focused enough to focus on what people out there actually care about, their own lives, their healthcare, their education for their children, businesses that they can build, if you can stay focused enough to put that in your speech, you can't be president.” PeopleIfsChildrenEnoughCarePresidentFocusSpeechFocusedHealthcareStay Focused Author:Star Jones
“What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.” ImportantTodayHoursRichKeysCallingProgramImportant ThingsRadicalReformHealthcareSocialistMinimumMinimum WageFree Education Author:Kshama Sawant
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with a single-payer system, a public program that guarantees everyone coverage.” ShouldQualityIndustryProgramUniversalProfitObstaclesGuaranteesHealthcareReplacedCoverageDeliveringHigh Quality Author:Kshama Sawant
“Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.” ShouldHandsTakenIndustryDemocraticHealthcareOwnership Author:Kshama Sawant
“I think we're at a really unique moment right now because the American people are waking up to the fact that it is a race to the bottom between these two corporate parties that are sending jobs overseas, putting downward pressure on wages, starving people out of healthcare, locking an entire generation into unpayable predatory student loan debt.” PeopleThinkingTwoMomentsFactsJobsPartyRaceGenerationsStudentsRight NowUniqueWake UpPressureBottomDebtCorporateWakingHealthcareWagesLoanStarvingPredatoryStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you know, this was televised and I articulated our usual agenda: cut the military, put the dollars into true security here at home, provide healthcare as a human right, raise wages which needed to be living wages, green our energy system, equal marriage? - we were the only ones talking about it back in 2002.” IfsKnowsWayHumansHomeEnergyTalkingCuttingSecurityMilitaryNeededEqualRaisesGreenDollarsDebateAgendasUsualHealthcareGovernorsWagesMassachusettsLiving Wage Author:Jill Stein
“Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.” PeopleIfsChoicesGivenPlansTroubleHigherPercentDoctorsExplanationHospitalsHealthcareSixtySeventiesMedicareFree ChoiceQualifying Author:Ralph Nader
“If there is a big bill to do infrastructure improvements and it is about working people, let`s do that. But let`s absolutely fight with every ounce that we have to protect healthcare and make it even better.” PeopleIfsBigsFightingProtectBillsImprovementHealthcareInfrastructure Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“In the middle of Hillary Clinton's push for national healthcare in 1993, Bill Clinton cited Thomas Jefferson's concern for health issues as, somehow, apparently indicative of a need for federal management of the nation's healthcare system.” NeedsNationsIssuesMiddleConcernManagementBillsClintonHealthcareHealth Issues Author:Paul Kengor
“When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.” PeopleFeelingsSufferingWonderfulDoctorsPatientNurseHealthcareBurn OutSuffering Of OthersCaretakersMotherlyDoctors And Nurses Author:Matthieu Ricard
“Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.” ShouldGovernmentAgePayConditionsBritishHealthcare Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think preexisting conditions is a very important feature of any healthcare system.” ThinkingImportantConditionsFeaturesHealthcare Author:Paul Ryan
“In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the government - is coming to rob you of your hard-earned money. That's the general attitude, and it's a tremendous victory for the opponents of democracy, and, of course, any privileged sector is going to hate democracy. You can see it in the healthcare debate.” HardStatesGovernmentHateCoursesForceUnitedPayAttitudeUnited StatesDemocracyVictoryTaxesDebateAliensOpponentsMourningHealthcarePrivileged Author:Noam Chomsky
“The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.” IfsThinkingGovernmentRunningProgramMajorityPopulationFavorsHealthcareYour Freedom Author:Noam Chomsky
“We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.” WayNeedsKindAmericaOrderStrongSocialIssuesFailingSecurityConcernBoxesChinaDebtFocusedDrivenTraditionalSecureBudgetsFallenBuyingHealthcareSocial SecurityDeficitSocial IssuesBallots Author:T. D. Jakes
“Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.” WantStatesGovernmentRightsDemocraticEnvironmentalHeyHealthcareGovernorsFederal GovernmentOur EnvironmentMedicaidStates Rights Author:John Hickenlooper
“We`re talking of passing the legislation that repeals and replaces Obamacare with a patient-centered system that brings down prices and expands choices, so people have more - better access to more affordable healthcare choices and options, but that takes time to put into place.” PeopleChoicesTalkingPatientAccessPassingPassingsHealthcareTake TimeLegislationObamacareAffordable Author:Paul Ryan
“Our goal is to make sure that everyone in this country has access to affordable healthcare, including people with pre-existing conditions. So they can access affordable coverage. That is not what you have with Obamacare.” PeopleCountryGoalConditionsIncludingAccessHealthcareObamacareAffordableCoverage Author:Paul Ryan
“Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who`s coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her name is Seema Verma, a brilliant young woman, she made Indiana - healthy Indiana work so that actually low-income people in Indiana, actually have real healthcare coverage that they get access to a doctor. Those kinds of reforms on the state level we want see happen in all 50 states.” PeopleWantKindMadeRealStatesHappensRunningYoungNamesLevelsHealthyLowsProgramDoctorsBrilliantAccessIncomeReformHealthcareYoung WomenMikeCoverageIndianaLow IncomeMedicaid Author:Paul Ryan
“Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.” RepublicanBattleLosingElectionMajorityDemocraticCongressHealthcareLandslidesMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Barack Obama
“We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.” PeopleWantShouldSchoolJobsIntellectualPercentYeahMajorityObstaclesDiscriminationDisabilityHealthcareTolerateGood JobUnemployedFull LifeIntellectual Disability Author:Timothy Shriver
“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.” PeopleWayImportantCountryStatesHelpingShowsAmericaPoliticalTermUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesSupportIssuesPolicyTruth IsDegreesMajorsLowsProgramFundamentalsTradeIncomeInequalityEducateHealthcareOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaWagesImportant IssuesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?” MightNamesQualitySituationEconomySubjectsMissingHigherVoteProfessionLinksHealthcareWwiiAffordableParticipatingHigher EducationRight To VoteWorkforce Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I believe that we won't get the fullest contribution from women, they won't be able to reach their fullest aspirations, until we take a completely different look at how we make healthcare more affordable, higher quality, with better access to many more women.” BelieveLooksDifferentAbleI BelieveQualityHigherAccessAspirationContributionHealthcareAffordableDifferent Looks Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as a priority. Here in America, we won't have the same kind of healthcare availability because it's still a private sector initiative. But that's O.K. because it's facilitated to be made more affordable in a public way.” IfsWorldWayKindMadeStillsCountryAmericaTalkingCostPrioritiesHealthcareInitiativeCompetingAffordablePrivate SectorAvailability Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business. The healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses but the people.” PeopleHas BeensRunningOpinionCostAbsolutesDisasterHealthcareRoof Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.” KnowsOpportunityStuffFocusedHealthcare Author:Ken Moelis
“I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansLongStillsSelfHomeRememberPresidentRightsSpeechDegreesWorshipDeserveDignityHuman RightsDefinitionsTrialsEmploymentRememberedDecentSelf RespectBroadsHealthcareFreedom Of SpeechLong WayJuryAssemblyLong Way To GoTrial By JuryFreedom Of Assembly Author:Jimmy Carter
“People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.” PeopleDoeWarHardSocialLeaderEconomicPolicyTrumpVotePrisonMalesCaringCampaignsBackgroundsHealthcareTechnologicalConditioningUpheavalChildcare Author:Riane Eisler
“The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda. It doesn't matter if the population wants it. What 90% of the population wants would be kind of irrelevant. But if part of the concentration of corporate capital that basically runs the country - another thing we're not allowed to say but it's obvious - if part of that sector becomes in favor then the issue moves onto the political agenda.” IfsWantKindCountryMatterWould BeRunningMovingPoliticalIssuesIndustryPressesStartingPopulationObviousFavorsCorporateConcentrationAgendasBe KindHealthcareIrrelevantManufacturingPolitical Agendas Author:Noam Chomsky
“The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.” WantWritingCoursesPresidentPlansSpeechLettersFocusedSpeedConvincedAdministrationBarackHealthcareVersesPresident Barack ObamaHigh Speed Author:Ron Suskind
“I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."” IfsYearsFirstsDoeSaidCareCan DoRepublicanOkaySevenIncludingHealth CareEmsHealthcareSeven YearsSkepticalSomething BetterObamacareCan Do Something Author:Barack Obama