If someone lives in New York, he’s a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Pataki frames access to high-quality health care as a civic entitlement tied to residency and shared membership in the state’s political community. The line uses a simple identity claim—“New Yorker”—to argue that medical excellence should not be a privilege reserved for the wealthy or well-connected, but a baseline standard owed to all who live in New York. Implicitly, it positions government as responsible for ensuring system-wide quality (hospitals, insurance coverage, public health infrastructure) and suggests that New York should aspire to global leadership in medicine. The rhetoric is aspirational and egalitarian, leveraging local pride to justify ambitious public investment and reform.