We really need to be talking about the COVID vaccine the same way that we talk about other vaccinations - which is that it's safe, effective, life-saving and essential for the public's health.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor those with health conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, the rising cost of lifesaving medications is straining budgets, fueling undue stress, and forcing them to make difficult decisions.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
Copy Quote View & ShareA troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe must ensure full access to all reproductive health services, including abortion. We must also provide for our aging population, ensuring our parents and grandparents have the care they need. We must defend Medicare, expand Social Security, and provide tax credits for families who care for their elders and loved ones with disabilities.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious health targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to avoiding impoverishment from exorbitant out-of-pocket health expenses.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe can build wealth in all our communities, value public education, plan for our neighborhoods, invest in housing we can afford and transportation that serves everyone, truly fund public health for safety and healing, and deliver on a city Green New Deal for clean air and water, healthy homes, and the brightest future for our children.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe are pushing for Medicare-for-all. That's an economic issue - it really is. And if we can work toward a fair, more-equitable system for working families, everybody would have health care.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
Copy Quote View & ShareWell, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Copy Quote View & ShareGovernment is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
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