Tommy Douglas Quotes

I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for every mother, for every person in this country, to have healthcare.

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.

Health care is a right, not a privilege. In order for that right to be shared by everyone, it's very important that we eliminate free riders. Everybody should be participating. The bigger the pool, the lower the cost, the healthier the country.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.

I am a supporter of Medicare for All.

I believe that every family - it doesn't make a difference who you are or where you come from - deserves to have quality healthcare. It is a universal right. It's not the exclusive privilege of the elite and the wealthy.

We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

What we should be focusing on - and finding solutions for - is ensuring that every American has health care in this country, no matter what level, no matter what age. No one should die because they can't afford health insurance. No one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.