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People are ready to say, Yes, we are ready for single-payer health

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

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We use the word hope perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: I hope its a nice day. Hopefully, youre doing well. So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so. – Studs Terkel

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Hope
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Im not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, Yes, we are part of a world. – Studs Terkel

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Leadership
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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. – Studs Terkel

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Beauty
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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

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Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that dont have anything to do with health care. – Russ Feingold

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Its 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

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Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. – Ann Wigmore

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – its all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn

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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. – Dan Bennett

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