Paul Farmer Quotes

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

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

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

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

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

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

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.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

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

I believe health care is a civil right.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

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.'

When we're talking about medical care we're talking about our sense of values. Do we think human life is important? Do we think that the best medical care which is available is something to which people are entitled, by virtue of belonging to a civilized community?

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

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.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

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

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.