Medical Access Quotes

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.

Half the counties in America have no psychiatrists, psychologists or psychiatric social workers--none.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Nobody will ever be turned away at my city hospital.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

Throughout our history we have been tireless advocates for expanding access to high-quality, affordable medicine. This is especially true in the area of HIV/AIDS.

Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

It's unacceptable for any past or present service member to lose access or go through increased hurdles to get the medical services they rely on.

Every single one of us deserves access to quality, affordable health care.

We have a plan and it's been put out on my website and people love it. If you're going to have a wait of six days, five days, two days, one day, we're going to give our great veterans the right to go out, go across the street to a private doctor or a private hospital or a public hospital, whatever happens to be in that community, without having to drive 400 miles to another hospital.

That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.