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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 healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

— Donald Berwick

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

— Todd Park

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

— Ed Pastor

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

— Charles Krauthammer

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

— Bernie Sanders

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have made a commitment to provide health care for those over 65. In order to pay for this, each of us should contribute the same, flat percentage of our earned income.

— Charles B. Rangel

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

— Jane D. Hull

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

— Ronnie Musgrove

The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable.

— Susan Estrich

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

— Scott Brown