Health Care Quotes

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

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 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?

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.

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

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

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.

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

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.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

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.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

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

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

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

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs

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

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

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

ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator.

Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

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.

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

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

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

The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.

At least 25% of the money Americans spend on health care is wasted.

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

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

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

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

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

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

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

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.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

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