--- title: "1 People Sick Quotes By Glenn Loury" description: "1 People Sick quotes by Glenn Loury. Plus more from Glenn Loury and more People Sick sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/glenn-loury-40213_blocked_america-is-the-only-advanced-industrial_2543294.jpg" --- > [America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked in access to the system because they don't have access to insurance, which is only available…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/america-is-the-only-advanced-industrial-democracy-where-people-can/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/glenn-loury-40213_blocked_america-is-the-only-advanced-industrial_2543294.jpg) ## More by Glenn Loury > [My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/my-mouth-is-no-prayer-book-but-my-view-is-i-d-view-addiction-to-these/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/the-fact-that-we-don-t-talk-about-it-that-we-don-t-have-a-politics-in/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/i-m-left-okay-and-sometimes-radically-and-sometimes-i-even-shock/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/you-can-put-a-person-in-jail-for-5-years-for-10-years-or-20-years-for/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [My sermon for us Americans would be to construct the kind of institutions of mutuality and social cooperation that don't leave 15 or 20…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/my-sermon-for-us-americans-would-be-to-construct-the-kind-of/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/the-land-of-the-free-we-ve-got-an-army-marching-around-the-world/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/if-you-have-a-system-that-says-everybody-who-needs-healthcare-gets-it/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/racial-problems-can-t-be-easily-reconciled-with-a-pat-account-about/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/we-can-see-in-retrospect-that-criminalizing-the-consumption-of/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/america-is-the-only-advanced-industrial-democracy-where-people-can/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) > [Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-loury/three-strikes-laws-make-no-sense-as-policy-they-are-more-about-the/) [Glenn Loury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-loury/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people-sick/glenn-loury/#itemlist", "name": "1 People Sick Quotes By Glenn Loury", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. 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