Quotes About Health

Like a lot of other young people, I never thought about health insurance until I got sick. I was 22, and my adult life was just beginning.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

The ACA is far from perfect, but through Kynect and expanded Medicaid, it enabled more than 400,000 Kentuckians - especially those with pre-existing conditions - to get affordable health insurance for the first time.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

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.

You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up.

If you have a chronic illness in America, there's a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.

Sound health policy is about so much more than the mechanics of insurance. Let's stop letting 'Medicare-for-all' dominate the conversation.

The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the expense of issues with a much greater impact on our health.

Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.

Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.

The best thing you can do for yourself is lower your meat intake, so I try to do one day a week meatless.

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

I have found out what I am allergic to, and I am trying to avoid that in my daily food intake.

Dinner should be low in caloric intake. Foods like fish and broccoli are very good choices.

I don't really like fruit, so I drink a lot of smoothies to get my fruit intake up.

Skincare is integral to women's daily routine. They shouldn't have to compromise on what they use or the difference they see just because of the price.

Playing cricket has given me an excellent opportunity to get fit and healthy, meet people of similar interests, integrate with people of different backgrounds and see the world.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

You can add five years to your lifespan by just making intelligent lifestyle choices.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.