“Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.”
— Michael Crapo
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“If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti – and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera… which can spread like wildfire in Haiti… This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.”
— Paul Farmer
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“We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.”
— Judd Gregg
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“This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”
— Arlen Specter
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“The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.”
— James Otis
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“I believe health care is a civil right.”
— Dennis Kucinich
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“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
— Buddha
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“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
— Thomas Fuller
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
— John Muir
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
— Pythagoras
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