Quotes About Reform

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

We will have health care reform in America.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.