Healthcare as a Human Right Quotes

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

I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you know, this was televised and I articulated our usual agenda: cut the military, put the dollars into true security here at home, provide healthcare as a human right, raise wages which needed to be living wages, green our energy system, equal marriage? - we were the only ones talking about it back in 2002.

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

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

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.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

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.

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

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.

Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.