“We cannot go back to the days when insurance companies could deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.”— Eliot Engel
“A free health service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of human need.”— Aneurin Bevan
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution.”— Ivan Illich
“It was really a matter of recognizing that women had a different spectrum of disease, and that they had been completely excluded, and their mortality was higher.”— Kathryn Anastos
“Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”— Donald Berwick
“As a nurse and a public health professional, I know that it is not only good policy, but also the right thing to do to make sure that everyone has access to quality, affordable health care.”— Lois Capps
“Ensuring that our senior citizens have access to the health care they need and deserve is a fundamental moral obligation.”— Lois Capps
“We have an opportunity to move from a system of 'sick care' to one of 'health care'.”— Andrew von Eschenbach