Key Influencers Speak Up
Quotes from key influencers about Rockridge's health care campaign.
Dr. Quentin Young, National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program:
"We are deeply grateful to George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute for entering the health care debate for the single payer side. Like Michael Moore's Sicko, their work has the potential to involve millions more Americans in this life and death issue."
Donna Gerber, Director, Government Relations, California Nurses Association:
"The report, The Logic of the Health Care Debate by the Rockridge Institute couldn't be more timely to inform the debate going on in the California Legislature on so-called 'reform' proposals on healthcare. Thank you for explaining what we have been living and thank you for encouraging our members to stay with their moral position; it's about real live people and their lives and bodies... and shouldn't be about insurance 'markets'."
John P. Geyman, M.D., Past President, Physicians for a National Health Program:
"The Rockridge Institute report on The Logic of the Health Care Debate gives us a refreshing approach to frame the issues and decide among reform alternatives. This is a must-read for all policymakers and everyone involved in the debate over health care, which should include all of us."
James G. Kahn, MD MPH, Professor of Health Policy and Epidemiology and California Physicians Alliance board member:
"Congratulations to the Rockridge Institute on the excellent and important paper, The Logic of the Health Care Debate. As an academic health policy researcher and a board member for the California Physicians Alliance, I greatly appreciate how this report articulates the failure of leading reform proposals to embrace the progressive values for health reform. I know I will use it in my thinking, teaching, and activism."
Larry Cohen, MSW, Executive Director, Prevention Institute:
I applaud the Rockridge Institute for their report, The Logic of the Health Care Debate, and the incisive thinking it contains. In order to transform our approach to health we are going to need to simultaneously put the focus on addressing what causes illness and injury in the first place and reforming the medical care system. The Rockridge Institute analysis helps move us toward a discussion of what is really important: working together to create communities, institutions, and a health care system that encourage, support, and protect health.