Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

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.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

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

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

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

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

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

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.'

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

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

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage - that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.