Preventive Care Quotes

• On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

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  Michael C. Burgess

  Drug   Firsts   Benefits  

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• Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

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  Jan Schakowsky

  Quality   Care   Constituents  

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• You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

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  Cokie Roberts

  Mother   Cancer   Kids  

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• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

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  Michael Dean Crapo

  Mean   Men   Doctors  

  "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

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  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer   Recovery   Night  

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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