RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE
Topic Introducer: Debbie Silverstein, State Director of Single Payer Action Network
“It just isn’t fair that the timeliness of the care you get is dependent on how much money you have…meaning if you have insurance or not.”
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“I have always felt that this country is a country of haves and have-nots and that health care follows the money…Health care insurance with high deductibles and co-pays don’t encourage real preventative medicine as in regular or frequent visits to the doctor.”
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“When you’re a woman of color and poor, you quickly learn that the health care you get around here is not the same as people with insurance.”
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As a large black man, I would have thought they would naturally have thought that this [chest pains] could be serious…As soon as I finished registering, filling out forms with personal information, three security guards appeared and ushered me out.”
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“As a homeless man, you will learn about access to being treated like a human being I mean, how are you going to get health care when you can’t even get humane care.”
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