Health Care Quotes

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

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

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

I received free health care.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Hillary Clinton wants to keep Obamacare and she wants to make it even worse, and it can't get any worse. Bad health care at the most expensive price. We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.

Centralized health dictatorship.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them very badly, but we're going to work very hard on health and health care.

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.