Ann Widdecombe Quotes

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

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

Your care and your treatment shouldn't be dictated by your ZIP code.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

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

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

I know firsthand how our being such a rural state presents challenges to healthcare.

As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.

You don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick.

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.