Quotes About Policy

We are the short of people that make health insurance popular.

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.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

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.

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

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.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

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 care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

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

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.