#healthcare

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it. ↗

— Lawrence Martin

#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man! [Susan Sarandon on endometriosis awareness] ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#endometriosis #feminism #feminist #healthcare #illness

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#aids #battle #being #healthcare #involved

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#medications #nearly #percent #pharmaceutical #senior

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#areas #backsliding #budgets #economy #education

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#cost #good #healthcare #litigation #lower

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#adequate #benefits #dearly #healthcare #heroes

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#guinea #guinea pigs #healthcare #keep #own

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#care costs #controls #costs #government #healthcare

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#bureaucracy #government #healthcare #incentives #market