#health

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#being #cleaner #create #decades #environment

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#health #infrastructure #linking #mental health #public

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#change #enhance #evolving #health #important

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#attention #contribute #country #fighting #health

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#allowing #also #borders #cannot #control

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#coin #economy #fixing #health #health care

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#amount #care #country #cover #doctor

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. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#aspect #believe #care #get #guarantee

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#choose #else #health #health insurance #insurance

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#competition #correct #create #health #health reform