![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)
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/george-mitchell-introduced-the-idea-that-wed-go-on-683x1024.jpg)
![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 - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/on-the-most-recent-battles-on-health-insurance-ref-683x1024.jpg)
