Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections a...
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.
All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.
We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.
The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have made a commitment to provide health care for those over 65. In order to pay for this, each of us should contribute the same, flat percentage of our earned income.
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budg...
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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 learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
