Health Quotes

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

"Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."

"As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want."

"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."

"Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies."

"Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness."

"The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios."

"I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency."

"If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed."

"One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks."

"I fully support a national health care program for the U.S."

"Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men."

"The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being."

"With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot."

"I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away."

"If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else."

"It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law."

"Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees."

"When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results."

"Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin."