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		Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Benjamin Simpson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angela Braly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Mackey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clara Bow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daayiee Abdullah
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				E. B. White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Klobuchar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aristotle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Conan O'Brien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Foster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harley Pasternak
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Phyllis Schlafly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
				Charles B. Rangel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aristotle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frans van Houten
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Women want fair taxes, a growing economy, affordable health care, secure borders, and the defeat of ISIS. They don't need the solutions to be wrapped in pink. They just want problems solved.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristen Soltis Anderson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kent Conrad
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kyrsten Sinema
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George A. Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Morse Earle