I'd just turned 50 weighed 285 and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

America's doctors nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world but our health care system is broken.

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.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

America enjoys the best health care in the world but the best is no good if folks can't afford it access it and doctor's can't provide it.

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965 about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.