The Hidden History of American Healthcare Quotes

“America is the only developed country in the world that doesn’t recognize healthcare as a human right, the only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access to affordable healthcare, and the only country in the developed world that has, since its founding, continuously enslaved and legally oppressed and disenfranchised a large minority of its population because of their race.”
― Thom Hartmann, The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

“This semi-privatization of Medicare was called Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage. Although it has the name “Medicare,” it’s not Medicare. It’s private, for-profit insurance, with almost all of the costs paid for with funds extracted from the government’s Medicare trust fund.”
― Thom Hartmann, The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich