Healthcare Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Children, Awards

  "Geekdad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of the Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com.

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• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Change, War, President

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

  Bruce Feiler

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Iraq, Soldier, Ongoing

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

  Jill Stein

  Years

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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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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• Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

  James Chanos

  Eye, Growing, Lines

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• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mean, Sea, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

  Nelson Mandela

  Numbers, Facts, Crisis

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• If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know. But as long as I got my health goin' pretty good, I'll show up around here.

  Muddy Waters

  Long, People, Sick

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• Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Block, School, Opportunity

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• I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

  Bob McDonnell

  Coverage

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• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

  William Greider

  Country, Retirement, Years

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• I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

  Max Baucus

  Believe, Opportunity, America

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• People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it.

  Dylan Ratigan

  America, People, Political

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• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Issues, Attention

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• If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

  Bill Maher

  Pain, Medicine, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Bill Maher from Jul 27, 2009

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• It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

  Jalal Talabani

  Air, Progress, Guarantees

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• The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

  Mitt Romney

  Numbers, Dollars, Half

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Home, Land

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• I row after health like a waterman.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1763). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: More of his literary correspondence ... An account of the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift”, p.146

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• As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

  Christiane Northrup

  Love, Inspirational, Doctors

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• It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, People, Water

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