Benjamin Spock Quotes

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

People have said, You've turned your back on pediatrics. I said, No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

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.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

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

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

When a company owns a drug, it has a responsibility to make sure that the drug is available to all who need it.

When you have 25 percent of the city not being able to afford care, health becomes everyone's responsibility.... What is the moral responsibility of a hospital? Do you assure basic services for the many, or do you retain complex sophisticated services that tend to affect the relatively few?

Economic factors are critically important in the prevention of illness.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.