Quote by Ivan Illich
Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. – Ivan Illich

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The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. – Ivan Illich

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Medical
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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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

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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Make no mistake, a yes vote on the Democrats health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions. – John Boehner

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We are usually the best men when in the worst health. – English Proverb

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