“Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.”
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“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.”
“Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.”
“People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.”
“People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”
“Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?”
“People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.”
“We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.”
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
“You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.”
“Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.”
“My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.”
“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”
“It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.”
“The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.”
“The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”
“The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.”
“Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.”
“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.”
“Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.”
“No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.”
“Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.”
“The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.”
“As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.”