When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can not afford, they are condemning good people to death.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can not leave, you are in effect a captive.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

I am actually tougher on myself as I get older. It is a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can not buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

My health is good and it is up to me to keep it that way.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it is bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

People do not trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Look, if you have somebody who Does not have health insurance, who Does not have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about rich. Not only am I rich from doing some of things I have been able to do, but I am rich in spirit. I am rich in health. I am rich in every way possible.