Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
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.
As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.
Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
