It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.
— Robert Jarvik
When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
— Robert J. Waldinger
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more.
— Robert J. Sawyer
I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
— Robert Hurt
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
— Robert Evans
Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.
— Rob Wittman
Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.
— Rob Portman
I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.
American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.
— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.
— Rick Tumlinson
No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.
— Rick Scott
What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.
— Rick Perlstein
One reason for high health care costs is that patients fail to follow their treatment regimen.
— Richard Thaler
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
— Richard Russo
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
— Robert Kennedy
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.
Far from the stereotype that psychodynamic treatments are appropriate only for the 'worried well,' a growing body of evidence points to their efficacy in dealing with the most pressing mental health problems of our time.
Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don't care about your health.
— Robert J. Shiller
I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.
— Robert J. Bentley
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
— Robert Gober
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.
— Robert Dallek
As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.
I don't know what's going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we'll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it's a bad policy, and we think it's hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up.
I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That's the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.
— Rithvik Dhanjani
This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.
Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.
I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.
— Rick Santelli
I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
— Rick Majerus
When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.
I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.
— Richard Roundtree
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.
— Robert Kennedy, Jr.
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.
A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.
I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.
— Robert Irvine
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
— Robert Foster Bennett
Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in the private sector, then folks working for the federal government should not have them either.
— Rob Woodall
Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.
The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious... This administration simply doesn't get it.
I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.
— Rita Rudner
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.
I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
— Rick Perry
When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.
— Richard Trumka
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.
— Richard Simmons
