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Im active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. – Mandy Patinkin

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply cant leave, you are in effect a captive. – Rowan D. Williams

My health is good and its up to me to keep it that way. – Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that its bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential. – Charles Kennedy

People dont trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons. – Bernie Sanders

Look, if you have somebody who doesnt have health insurance, who doesnt 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

I believe that investing in our childrens development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state. – Jay Weatherill

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about rich. Not only am I rich from doing some of things Ive been able to do, but Im rich in spirit. Im rich in health. Im rich in every way possible. – NeNe Leakes

Like it or not, in the end, its ones body. Its literally what carries you through life. Theres a reason for the saying, If you have your health, you have everything, and its true. Old age, disease – these are the great equalizers. – Candace Bushnell

So I cant show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. – Paul Farmer

You cant have public health without a public health system. We just dont want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. – Paul Farmer

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didnt want to change the health care they had they didnt want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. – Fred Upton

Under President Obamas new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. – Fred Upton

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesnt include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. – Fred Upton

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid Washington knows best answers. – Fred Upton

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and were surrendering it all at the same time. – Paul Hawken

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, Ill keep playing until I feel like I cant. – B. B. King

By adopting a wonderful mutt, youll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. – Ingrid Newkirk

People are ready to say, Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance. We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. – Studs Terkel

Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel