Sentences with phrase «decent health care»

If that happens, a good pension, just like decent health care, will become a right for everyone.

In his tenure, he delivered education reform, abolished the death penalty in Illinois, improved nursing - home conditions for the elderly, legalized civil unions, walked across the state in support of decent health care for all citizens, proposed historic tax reform for working families, and prioritized animal welfare.

A political operative explains, «You get the sense that for the single mother who makes $ 29,000 a year, they [the editors] care a lot more about her right to an abortion than her right to decent health care from her union.»

On behalf of those who are not, those who are ought to be malcontent with the scandalous American toleration of dying (as opposed to living) wages, the widening income gap and the inability of millions to afford decent health care.

When you take away basic human rights from human beings such as decent health care, you are doing so to Jesus.

And I bet none of those healed had any kind of health insurance with huge rip - off insurance companies who charged them ridiculous premiums and then said they wouldn't cover whatever their illness was, or had limits on what they would pay, or gave payoffs to crooked politicians to keep people from getting decent health care at reasonable prices, or forbade them from buying the medications they needed from anywhere they were available, or even had forms to fill out.

You might think that dietitians in a country humane enough to provide its citizens with decent health care would steer clear of Big Food influence over its nutrition professionals.

Sure, schooling, decent health care coverage and fruit roll - ups helped a little, but it wasn't until a few years later when the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) swept the country and became the new obsession of our impressionable lives.

Decent health care for all is not a «special interest.»

«Like others in our country, transgender people want to be able to live safely, to be able to work and have access to decent health care, and to be able to live with dignity,» Minter said in an email.

Particularly for families without the luxuries of clean water, decent health care and a regular income.

(It is worth noting that poor and minority families also endorse lots of other reforms, such as access to decent health care, to which Democratic and Republican elites fail to respond.

Rural Vermont, a Vermont statewide grassroots organization, works to support an economic policy for Vermont that serves agriculture, natural resource based industries, and small rural business, and provides good jobs, fair wages, decent health care, and housing and transportation for all rural citizens.