When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.
To me, the one thing you should splurge on, if you only have a certain amount of money to spend, is your bed because you spend about 30 percent of your life in bed, and you should be comfortable, and you should wake up every day just feeling good.
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.
precursor of the New Democratic Party.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.