Simone Campbell Quotes
We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.
Campbell, Simone. A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community. HarperOne, 2014.
The "right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" to Sanders an many others implies a right to Healh Care in that life depends on health care in many cases and it is hard to persue happiness is one is not sufficiently healthy. Others argue that there is no explicit mention of Health Care per se in the Constitution as originally written or in the Bill of Rights or subsequent amendments.
Simone Campbell, SSS, is an American Roman Catholic Religious Sister, lawyer, lobbyist and executive director of NETWORK. She belongs to the Sisters of Social Service. She is known as an outspoken advocate for social justice.