Andrew Lansley Quotes
You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care.
Lansley, Andrew. "Speech to the RCN Congress." Royal College of Nursing Congress, 11 Apr. 2011, ACC Liverpool, Liverpool.
Eisenhower later fired Hobby because when Salk invented the polio vaccine and Hobby did not get it distributed to all Americans regardless of their ability to pay. For a while, poor children kept getting polio after it was unnecessary. Arthur Flemming took over HEW and did the job as Eisenhower wanted. Eisenhower was a health advocate uncharacteristic of the conservative wing of his party at the time.
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.
Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley, CBE, PC, DL is a British Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015.