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" We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one. "

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" Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks. "

Lucy Powell

Today

Care

Health

" We need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that's not necessarily tied to their insurance, that's not mandated, that's not taxed. "

" While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. "

" The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about. "

" Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable. "

" I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography. "

" Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers. "

" Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility. "

" Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things. "

" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "

" I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. "

" We drink one another's health and spoil our own. "

" The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health. "

" Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board. "

" Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do. "

" Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. "

" I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords. "

" The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss. "

" I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious. "

" Quit worrying about your health. It will go away. "

Robert Orben

Will

Your

" Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. "

" When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health. "

" The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. "

" I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. "

" By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. "

" There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend. "

" When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing. "

" We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs. "

" The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it. "

" If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice. "