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When you’re up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it’s looking right at you; it’s a different viewpoint.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/i-think-paul-sarbanes-and-his-wife-christine-socia-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/there-were-times-though-when-the-women-came-togeth-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/senator-paul-sarbanes-really-was-a-big-help-to-me--683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/nancy-kassebaum-and-i-worked-on-a-womens-health-ag-683x1024.jpg)
