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This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.