Quotes About Policy

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

I believe health care is a civil right.

I wanna give great health care at a much lower cost than Obamacare.

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.