Professional Clip 16: Elizabeth Glaser, 1992 Speech to the Democratic National Convention

I believed in America , but not with a leadership of selfishness and greed, where the wealthy get health care and insurance and the poor don't. Do you know how much my AIDS care costs? Over $40,000 a year. Someone without insurance can't afford this. Even the drugs that I hope will keep me alive are out of reach for others. Is their life any less valuable? Of course not. This is not the America I was raised to be proud of—where rich people get care and drugs that poor people can't.