Health Quotes

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
– Eric Alterman
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
– Spencer Bachus
Most Americans want health insurance.
– Jacob Lew
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
– Andrew Weil
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.
– Tim Murphy
More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
– Kathleen Sebelius
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
– David Korten
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
– Diane Abbott
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
– William Falconer
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.
– Eric Liu
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.
– Timothy Griffin
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
– Carl Jung
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
– Michael Servetus
Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
– Kendrick Meek
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
– Thomas Tusser
Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
– John Boehner
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
– Bryan Cranston
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
– Samuel Smiles
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.
– Kendrick Meek
Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
– Bernie Sanders
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
– Christopher Meloni
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
– Barbara Boxer
Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
– Candace Bushnell
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
– Mitch Daniels
Lack of time is a real health killer.
– Marilu Henner
Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.
– Jerry Costello
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
– Paul Wolfowitz
It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.
– Paula Radcliffe
It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.
– Michel Martelly
It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
– Phil Bredesen
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.
– Jennie Garth
It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.
– Frank Carson
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
– Martha Plimpton
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
– Martha Plimpton
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
– Ron Wyden
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
– Meryl Streep
It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.
– Pierre Dukan
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
– Nigel Farage
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
– Bernadette Peters
It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
– Terry Eagleton
It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
– Jane D. Hull
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.
– Jim Ramstad
It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.
– Gwen Moore
It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
– Bill Shuster
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
– Ron Wyden
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.
– Gwen Moore
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
– Richard H. Davis
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
– Kate Smith
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
– Anthony Weiner
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
– Steven Rattner
In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.
– Jim Ryun
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
– John Conyers
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
– Dennis Kucinich
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
– Christine Gregoire
In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
– Jane Pauley
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?
– Scott Brown
In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
– Christopher Darden
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
– Deepak Chopra
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
– Rowan D. Williams
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
– Frank Shorter
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
– Jack Welch
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
– Patricia Cornwell
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.
– Virgil Goode
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
– Doc Hastings
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
– Jan Schakowsky
In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
– Karen Duffy
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
– Elton Gallegly
In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
– Gary Miller
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
– Roger Wicker
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
– Spencer Bachus
Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
– Bernard Hinault
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
– Larry Page
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
– Lewis Black
If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
– Kathleen Sebelius
If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
– Khloe Kardashian
If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.
– Kathleen Sebelius
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
– Dick Wolf
If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.
– John Podhoretz
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
– John Major
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
– Jacob Lew
If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
– Ron Wyden
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
– Jacob Lew
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
– Charles Krauthammer
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
– Andrew Weil
If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.
– Kevin Rudd
If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
– Bernie Sanders
If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
– Jamie Oliver
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
– John Cornyn
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
– Eric Braeden
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.
– Michael Moore
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
– Alex Ferguson
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
– Al Sharpton
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
– Paul Farmer
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
– Nathan Deal
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
– Salman Rushdie
I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.
– Ruben Studdard