Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
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I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down. -
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. -
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. -
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. -
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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