Quotes About Healthcare

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

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

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

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

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

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.

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.

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

You must all pay attention to your health first.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

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.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

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.