Health Care for All Quotes

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.