Disease Quote by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in…

— Alice Tisdale Hobart

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

— Euripides

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of…

— Zafrullah Chowdhury

“Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes…

— Otis Webb Brawley

“The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at…

— Abraham Verghese

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise…

— Ronald Reagan

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are…

— Pete Earley

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain…

— Jorge Luis Borges