Health Privilege Quotes

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

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

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

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

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.

In the beginning I used to say, 'I'm healthy, my cholesterol's fine, I don't have high blood pressure, I don't have diabetes.' By telling people that you see a doctor, and telling people that you're healthy, it's perpetuating the abuse against bigger bodies and the mindset that we owe it to people to be healthy.

I am technically healthy but my body is no more valid than someone's who isn't.