Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers – one of the best kept secrets in medicine – can help counter America’s growing access problem. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
Medical disenfranchisement is fueled by a host of factors that include worsening shortage of primary care doctors in needy communities and a troubling scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured. Adding to the trend are fewer medical students choosing primary care over more lucrative and specialized fields. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
One of the things about the Constitution – that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
I’ve been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I’ve chosen to live, low-income. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
Many of the young people living in inner-city America don’t see themselves – I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there’s a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people – if a gun is not present, it’s generally more difficult to do irreparable harm. Danny K. Davis Read Quote
