American Health Quotes

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.

One issue that affects every American is health care.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

After decades of false starts, we must make this our most urgent priority, giving every American health security, health care that can never be taken away, health care that is always there.

Too many Americans are getting sick on our over-commercialized food system.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

Millions of Americans who are not poor are health care poor.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.