A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
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.
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
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 try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
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.
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
