The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“My conclusion is that technological capitalism is by far the best system for giving entrepreneurs and workers their “fair share.” This fair… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease,… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Odds are, you’ll live a whole adult lifetime that wasn’t available to your parents and grandparents. Their life expectancy at birth was… — Bob P. Buford Copy Share Image
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
“Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat; the same number today suffer from being overweight…..For the… — Felicity Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.” — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“And when they asked us where we were from, we exchanged glances and smiled with the shyness of child brides. They said,… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
Well, since 'double-0's' have a short life expectancy, your mistake will be short-lived. — James Bond Copy Share Image
“Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century we have almost doubled life expectancy from forty to seventy, so in the twenty-first century we should at… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the American Constitution, well-versed in the classical heritage, consciously constructed an awkward governmental system like republican Rome's: much better… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Black illiteracy decreased to 16.4 percent in 1930, from 45 percent in 1900. Fewer black babies died at birth—by half. Black life… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
