Public Health Care

Famous quotes containing the words health care, public, health and/or care:

    “It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.”
    —Kathryn Anastos (b. 1950)

    “The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
    —In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.”
    —Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)

    “I am not sure how many “sins” I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.”
    —Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)