healthcare as a right Quotes

What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

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

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

Expanding health coverage is not a technical issue but a political one; it should be seen as a right and a means to development.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.

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

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

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.

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.