It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.
ATTRIBUTION:
Kathryn Anastos (b. 1950), U.S. physician. As quoted in New York magazine, p. 90 (December 21-28, 1992).
Anastos was at this time serving as medical director of an ambulatory-care unit of HIV primary-care services at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York City. A feminist and social reformer, she was an advocate of health care for women and the poor.
