David Mixner Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

We need to make sure our veterans have health care not just when they come home but throughout their lives.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

I think for the wounded, ill and injured warriors, they need the best possible care that we can give them - a continuum of care that not only started on the battlefield and extended all the way to the wonderful medical facilities that we have here in the United States - but beyond.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Everyone, without distinction as to economic and social conditions, has the right to the preservation of his health through the highest standards of food, clothing, housing and medical care which the resources of the State and community can provide. The responsibility of the State and community for the health and safety of its people can be fulfilled only by provision of adequate health and social measures

Most of us believe that we are morally bound to live as long as we can and to help our neighbors do the same.

The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent medical care.

If we can afford large sums of money or other such things as horseracing, and motion picture films, and we do—I'm not arguing against them—then I say we ought to have sufficient sense of values to say that health is more important than these things, and if we can find money for relatively non-essential things, we can find the money to give our people good health.

Health is a much higher priority than computers.

We can't afford to take minimum wage jobs that don't provide health care .... Universal health care is what we are seeking.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

Cancer Doesn’t Care How Busy You Are. Make an appointment!

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.