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We want to make sure the work force is fit and healthy, and that lowers health care costs overall.


Joan Kelly

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VALERIE JARRETT In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable...
JARED POLIS Given rising health care costs and limited financial resources, we want to optimize the use of those...
JOYCE LEE We as a nation lose if workers aren't healthy, ... It's an investment in workers' health and product...
KAREN DAVIS I want to drive down health care costs.
CHRIS GIBSON If I could bottle the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a pill, it would become a blockbuster drug.
RAJIV MISQUITTA The vote expands health care for workers, stops large, profitable companies from shifting their heal...
PAUL BLANK In business, it all comes down to the bottom line, and what they're realizing is that an overweight ...
BARBARA FULMER We believe Bridges to Excellence will raise the quality of care for our members and State Health Pla...
BOB GRECZYN Partnering with the Community Practitioner Program is an important step we can take today to have an...
BOB GRECZYN As health care costs increase, we should not add administrative costs, which this would do. We don't...
BONNIE STEWART There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of m...
CHARLIE NORWOOD The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy pe...
MIKE HUCKABEE We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt ...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG This agreement recognizes the contributions our employees make and at the same time allows GM of Can...
AL GREEN Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription dru...
KENDRICK MEEK The problem now is that often, mental health problems are not recognized until late, ... We want to ...
DAVID SATCHER As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompe...
DIANA DEGETTE Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES The commission has long advocated for change and we want to work with the government to make sure ch...
BARBARA HALL This legislation will restore stability and predictability to our health care system when it comes t...
JAMES BUCHEN We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, th...
CARL LEWIS I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for p...
DANA GOLDMAN Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We...
CHRIS HOLT Corruption in health care costs more than money. The price of corruption health care is paid in huma...
HUGUETTE LABELLE It's a basic right for people to make decisions regarding their own health care treatment. As health...
BARBARA FRYE Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other c...
ED STEADHAM Self care, self love.
Self esteem, self confidence
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON The health of the animal is always a question. In this case, we want to make sure that the health wo...
CHARLES CROSBY The vision is to have a strong public system, the vision is to make sure that there's health care wh...
IRIS EVANS By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americ...
JOHN CORNYN We know that people who participate in the programs actually do have lower health care costs,
JACK MAHONEY If you want to be a troubleshooter, make sure the organization you work for has a good health insura...
MACGYVER If you know what turf toe is like, it's miserable. We just want to make sure he's healthy.
JOE GIRARDI We definitely want to make sure that every pregnant woman has access to professional care.
CARRIE GODES Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced...
DAVE OBEY If we can get children to change their behavior at a young age they hopefully will grow up to be hea...
CARL CALLISON We applaud President Bush and his commitment to greater consumer health care empowerment. The eviden...
GREGG LEHMAN It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all co...
BILL MUNSON If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to ...
DAVE BRAT Today, health care costs have the potential to significantly erode an individual's retirement saving...
BRAD KIMLER The Medicaid program that ... we finalized today is a program to make sure the health care of the ev...
MARK MCCLELLAN I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to...
STEVEN BURD We are concerned that the push to measure quality will become just a smoke screen to cut costs and t...
DR. FREDERICK C. BLUM Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how th...
JOHN QUELCH Health care already costs too much. Unfortunately, the bill proposed by Senator Kennedy and many of ...
DON NICKLES We help other hospitals and health care organizations become better prepared to respond to emergenci...
CHRISTOPHER CANNON After a loss we always want to come back and work hard and get that next game. We want to make sure ...
DANIELLE SANTOS America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE There have been similar findings with regard to diabetes care. When Pitney Bowes lowered costs for d...
PAUL FRONSTIN We're concerned that we will get more, and we want to make sure that the assets are ready and availa...
MARK SMITH We need to make sure doctors can afford to practice medicine here and of course recruitment activiti...
JAMES GIBSON We're very excited about it, ... We hope to use the pulpit in the future in balancing spiritual, men...
JOE WILLIAMS Oral health care is primary care. We have a job to do and that's to take care of people. If governme...
KRIS NICHOLOFF We do a home visit for every dog and cat. We try to match lifestyles and needs. We have dogs that ar...
CYNDE FRANKEL That, in my view, will drive up costs in the public health-care system and leave many people behind.
BRIAN MASON Southwest Florida will capture its fair share of boomers. But we'll have to deal with transportation...
JANET WATERMEIER With health care costs increasing by double digits in the last few years, employers are desperate to...
LINDA CUSHMAN The challenge in policymaking is to take all the steps we can to help avoid unnecessary costs, to he...
MARK MCCLELLAN The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL fl...
CRAIG COMPTON This is the first set of behaviors that they learn. We want to make sure at the beginning that we ca...
CYNTHIA SMITH I want to applaud the commissioner, and I also just want to make sure that whatever we do, we make s...
HANK AARON I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside fr...
MARTHA STEWART Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is...
JEFF JENKINS The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many pe...
EULA BISS We are very pleased to be able to complete this transaction. APM is stronger today because we now ow...
ERIC ELLIOTT While the usual caretaker is away at work, we make sure those senior citizens are taken care of and ...
ELAINE JOHNSON Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l...
TEMPLE GRANDIN States should be exploring ways to lower health-care costs and help small business owners gain acces...
BRUCE JOSTEN I have voted to repeal the president's health care law and will continue to advocate for its rep...
BRETT GUTHRIE I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down cost...
ERIC CANTOR Remember the work that they are doing and tell and them and show your appreciation, ... If you're su...
JAMES YOUNG It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers manageme...
JOE CLABBY To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must...
MICHAEL BENNET Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration ...
RIC KELLER America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE Overall, we think it was a big victory. The little guy doesn't have to subsidize the fat cat's healt...
BOB BEDARD He was well-versed about the issues we talked about - health care costs, regulatory costs and things...
DAVID HUETHER Everybody's wrestling with rising health care costs and so are we. This is an 80-20 co-insurance pla...
ED STEADHAM My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healt...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS We need to make sure as a state we are devoting the energy and resources to make kids grow up health...
MATT FRANK It's based on the honor system, but this is one way we have for helping keep our health-care costs d...
JUDITH CLARK We want to make it so the people of Cherokee County don't have to drive south to get their health ca...
BILLY HAYES We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the oper...
KATHY HOLLEMAN Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers fr...
RON WYDEN Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to in...
TOM ALLEN When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the h...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making ...
BLANCHE LINCOLN A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact t...
BLANCHE LINCOLN It's no cost to the person. We just want to be sure the animal is healthy.
DANI BOLDA The primary thing as parents that we can do is make sure that we have mostly healthy food around the...
MARK SWANSON We want to make sure we?re in a position to take care of citizens in the City of Fairfax.
MAYOR ROB LEDERER The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that...
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JOAN JETT Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us...
JOAN HALIFAX All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l...
JOAN RIVERS I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD