Health Care Quotes - Page 29

• In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

  David Agus

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

  John Baldacci

  Goal, Cost, Care

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• Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Men, Years, Care

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• I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

  Alan Colmes

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

  Larry Elder

  Retirement, Father, Government

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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• As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.

  Bill Frist

  Believe, Doctors, Quality

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• There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

  Christine Gregoire

  People, World, Care

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

  Tom Harkin

  America, Sick, Care

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• I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

  John F. Kerry

  Giving, Care, Plans

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Class, Issues

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Healthy, Weight

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: Obamacare is beyond repair". www.usatoday.com. January 6, 2015.

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• So much for Obama's promise of 'quality, affordable health care.'

  Deroy Murdock

  Promise, Quality, Care

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• So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

  Byron York

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Meaningful, Believe, Creating

  "Klobuchar, Franken outline specifics on their health-care views". Interview with Cynthia Dizikes, www.minnpost.com. September 02, 2009.

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• It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

  Donald Berwick

  World, Care, Politically Correct

  Interview with Maggie Mahar, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2009.

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• A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?

  Chellie Pingree

  Jobs, Stupid, Weekend

  "For Gabby’s Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill" by Chellie Pingree, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2011.

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• Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stupid, Party, America

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• And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Challenges

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Jim Clyburn

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

  John Mica

  People, Missing, Reform

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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