Quotes About Healthcare

If Obama succeeds in turning health insurance and funding for college into universal entitlements, he will have expanded Washington's obligations on the scale of an LBJ or an FDR.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

If you break your finger, that's on you, right? But if you get a chronic illness, if you get a serious illness or life-threatening illness, that's something I think we should all share the cost in because we all face the same unknowns and the same risks.

My sister told me: 'You need to have a baby so that you've got someone to look after you when you're old.' And I was like: 'Hang on - I thought that's what the NHS was for? Unless the NHS is that screwed by the time I'm old, you've literally had to give birth to your own medical professional.'

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

Women can't be charged more than men for our health insurance.

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.