John McDonough Quotes (25 Quotes)

It's between 35,000 and 45,000 women, all low-income, many of them desperately poor and many of them attempting to get back into the workforce and finding a significant obstacle the state of their teeth.

It's a huge increase and unfortunately it's not a surprise. It's all tied to the cost of health insurance. It's either employers dropping coverage, which we haven't seen much of, or employers raising the cost of coverage to workers, so they can no longer afford it.

The more realistic and genuinely financed plan is the one offered by the House. It's got real coverage and real financing.

This contract represents a further significant step in development of our business in Canada, in line with our strategy of growing support services and PPP activities alongside a selective construction capability.

It's become the thing to do when you're in Chicago to sing during the seventh-inning stretch, ... Every day, people regularly ask, 'Who's pitching And who's singing'

There is an enormous amount of implementation work on this that will take three to five years before you look back and see where it all ended up. If there are one hundred things you want to know, probably more than half we don't know the answers to at this point in time, because it will be determined through regulation and through the process.

That was the beginning of Wrigley Field merging with Wrigleyville. Before 1984, this wasn't a weekend destination point and a place where people would socialize after games. There were some small corner taverns that people happened upon and that was it.

This plan is particularly helpful to lower- and low-middle income uninsured folks. What's less clear is its assistance to more middle income uninsured.

I like to divide the league into thirds. We're a middle tier team.

People should look at what we did in Massachusetts more as a political blueprint and less as a policy blueprint.

Given the amount of money we spend on our health care system, it would be pretty scandalous if we weren't high up there. We get an 'A' in access (to emergency care), only because the rest of the darn nation is so bad.

It absolutely affirms the need for public policies to protect taxpayers from companies who deliberately shift responsibility for the health needs of their workers onto the backs of taxpayers. Every company on this list needs to take a second look at what's going on with health care benefits.

We call it faith-based health insurance. You're supposed to pray you don't get sick, because if you get sick, you're in trouble.

This will have a ripple effect across the country.

This is an essential dose of protection for roughly 270,000 elderly and disabled people in Massachusetts who may experience a loss in drug coverage when they are switched overnight to the Medicare prescription drug program on January 1.

Based on the information we had last night, we thought it was prudent to go ahead and implement our pre-hurricane plan,

This is a huge step. There should be no underestimating it. This is a milestone that will lead to some substantial progress over the next three to five years.

It would have been nice to have some discussion with the leadership,

And not one of them was paid a dime or expenses to do it. Most of the time their performances were worth every penny. Right now, ... we're at abysmal . We're trying to move up to bad .

That would have dire consequences for the state. Something has to happen, and it has to happen soon.

The acquisition of Gillette's Stationery Products business further strengthens our writing instrument offering and optimizes our global distribution channels,

We've been reshaping the company for the last three or four years and have completed all our major disposals, so we're really on the growth period now,

Our fans provide unconditional support. But it's time to win.

Nevertheless, he said he was encouraged. Clearly they're thinking hard about all the key issues and seem to be moving toward a shared responsibility framework that says, 'Everybody's got to be part of this,' ... Today will be seen in the long run as a significant milestone in the process, where the House really began to create its own identity in terms of health reform.

We've said pretty consistently we would be willing to accept a responsible form of an individual mandate if it was also paired with a clear employer responsibility. It seems from what we are hearing that both elements are there.