Elizabeth Pisani Quotes

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

I believe health care is a civil right.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

After decades of false starts, we must make this our most urgent priority, giving every American health security, health care that can never be taken away, health care that is always there.

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.