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The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. -- Michael Moore
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around. -- Cynthia Dill
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance. -- Bill Dedman
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. -- Jan Schakowsky
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
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. -- Bart Stupak
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. -- Jack Layton
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. -- Cliff Stearns
I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer. -- Dennis Kucinich
Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk. -- Bev Perdue
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment. -- Sandra Fluke
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
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education. -- Rod Blagojevich
If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. -- Michael Moore
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country. -- Roger Wicker
I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset. -- John Garamendi
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. -- John Shadegg
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. -- Paul Farmer
The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money. -- Eula Biss
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship. -- Ron Wyden
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. -- Sarah Palin
I don't believe in all this public-funded health care, we can't afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it. -- Rob Ford
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time -- C. Everett Koop
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. -- Cynthia Kauffman

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