Health

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Rights 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

Health consists of having the same diseases as ones neighbors. – Quentin Crisp

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. Thats not called capitalism, thats called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. – Michael Moore

Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, Ive got a doctor with me 24 hours a day. Yeah, thats always the sign of a man in good health, isnt it? – David Letterman

You dont have to be a wreck. You dont have to be sick. Ones aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. – Jeanne Moreau

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obamas biggest liability – the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective. – Ron Fournier

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nations number one public health problem. – Jim Ramstad

The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone elses funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them. – Thomas Frank

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 theyve lost is the argument that we are a society. – Thomas Frank

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. – Thomas Frank

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single womens mental health: employment improves it. – Susan Faludi

Its easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldnt have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. – Martha Plimpton

Its long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of womens health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. – Martha Plimpton

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that weve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world. – George McGovern

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when peoples basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if youre not healthy. You cant appreciate it. – Bryan Cranston

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why cant grandma have a constitutional right to health care? – Al Sharpton

You cannot drive a system thats going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who arent sick and you dont have to pay more money on them. – Mehmet Oz

A womans health is her capital. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then its put out in the media as true. – Jesse Jackson