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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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.
For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.
Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.
I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.
We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
