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Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care. -- Cynthia Nixon
We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide. -- Jan Schakowsky
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars. -- Irwin Redlener
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away. -- Mike Huckabee
People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room. -- George W. Bush
Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy. -- Sandra Fluke
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? -- Paul Farmer
Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. -- Jim McCrery
We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country -- Barack Obama
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections. -- Dan Maffei
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness. -- Larry Page
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. -- John Conyers
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy. -- Bill Richardson
It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors." -- Michel Martelly
It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors. -- Michel Martelly
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens -- Ari Fleischer
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens. -- Ari Fleischer
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. -- Kerry Washington
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful. -- Alison Gopnik
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans. -- Ron Wyden
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. -- Ami Bera
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance. -- Eric Ries
I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them. -- Eula Biss
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. -- Christopher Dodd
Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. -- Rahm Emanuel
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. -- Martha Plimpton
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. -- Ed Pastor
My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care. -- Glenn Thompson
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. -- Cory Booker
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before. -- Christine Gregoire
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill. -- Astro Teller
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care. -- Diana DeGette
Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care. -- Jeff Merkley
I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care. -- Dan Maffei
The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care. -- George J. Mitchell
If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care. -- Paul Gillmor
I 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. -- Abraham Verghese
I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care. -- Cecile Richards
Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of. -- Jaggi Vasudev
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. -- Michael K. Simpson
By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America! -- Tom Allen
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed. -- Chellie Pingree
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it. -- Bill Frist
Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale. -- Nancy Northup
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. -- Gelila Bekele
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation. -- Eric Topol

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