Health Care Quotes

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

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

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

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

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

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.

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.

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.

When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

We will have health care reform in America.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

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.

You're going to die sooner.

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

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

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.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

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.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

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

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.