Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
Tommy George Thompsonis a United States Republican politician who was a state legislator in Wisconsin, and 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001. During his term as governor he was the chairman of AMTRAK, the nation's passenger rail service. He served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001–05, appointed by George W. Bush. After his time in the Bush Administration, Thompson was a partner with the law-firm Akin Gump and Chairman of Deloitte's global healthcare...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1941
CityElroy, WI
CountryUnited States of America
We're asking the fast food industry and all of the restaurants to start looking at their menus and see if they can diversify and put healthier foods on there and help to promote them.
The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications.
As we all know, the issues that were prominent on President-elect Bush's campaign agenda are the issues that, predominantly, the Department of the Health and Human Services will help him tackle over the next four years. I appreciate the confidence that he is showing in me today,
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By giving health care providers a way to check medications and dosages quickly, we create an opportunity to reduce the risks of medication errors that can seriously harm patients.
Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.
When you use the opportunity to allow the free-market system to work, it has the tendency to drive down costs,
What we're going to do as a department is to collaborate and to cooperate and partnership with the people of Iraq to rebuild that medical system back to what it was in the 1970s,
We really have to go to the state to the governor to the legislator and make some changes and make them quickly or we're going to get to the point where we're a third-world nation.
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Lauren pitched a very smart game and they made the defensive plays when they had to.
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