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		In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Moser
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Duhigg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cheryl Mills
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dominic Cooper
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Meriwether
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christie Brinkley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Americans need access to affordable, reliable health insurance. They want President Trump to take responsibility and work to ensure their continued access to their insurance - creating certainty and affordability, not confusion and chaos.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jan Schakowsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aphra Behn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Cleese
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gail Collins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David D. Burns
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the first two years this is a man Clinton who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bryant Gumbel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Walport
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daphne Oz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elijah Cummings