Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have a very local education system, they get inadequate access to education. With those as a starting base, you perpetuate inequality. That's why, here in New York, Mayor de Blasio has made a big deal of trying to focus on preschool education, because by five years old, there are already huge differences. We've finally begun to recognize it.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Risk, Different

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Cost, Growing

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, Wall, Couple

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• I don't think if we had been able to make that choice rationally, we would have said that's what we want to do. We would have said: "Can't we save the banks and solve our health care problems?" The answer is yes. You could have.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Thinking, Choices, Answers

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, War, Scary

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Care, Veteran

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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