I'm very concerned that a lot of vulnerable people, people sleeping out in our streets, who suffer from mental health problems, or learning difficulties and end up in our prisons, are not being looked after properly.
One in five children suffer from a mental health problem, according to a new report.
In what are called low-to-middle -income countries (think the BRICs), the incidence of preventable heart and lung ailments, and diabetes, is rising in tandem with affluence, although Frieden stressed that it is the poor in those nations who suffer the worst health.
Mental health services also suffer from a shortage in specialists approved to carry out the assessments which ensure the act is used appropriately, the CQC says.
Consequently, the poor on Medicaid face grave difficulties in obtaining timely and essential health care, and suffer worse health outcomes as a result.
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Among the many risks of rising temperatures, agriculture, forestry, ecosystems and human health are all expected to suffer as a result of trends in climate change.
Health and education suffer as poorly paid doctors and teachers take jobs in oil firms.
Other work, collected by Circadian Information, a consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests people who work on shifts also suffer more ill health.
Scientists in Atlanta found IVF babies could be up to 30% more likely to suffer from certain health problems and genetic flaws.
Everyone in America has been promised affordable health insurance and the only people who are going to suffer are a few rich people (the top 1%).
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Though that formula would not keep up 100% with rising health costs, Medicare does suffer an enormous long term financing gap that must be closed in some way.
The legal sticking point was that the law lacked a "health exception" for women who might suffer serious medical complications, something the justices have said in the past is necessary when considering abortion restrictions.
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