Vivek Murthy Quotes

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

When you're talking about comprehensive health care, you're going to make a lot of people unhappy.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

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.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

We will have health care reform in America.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Health is the single most difficult public policy that a Governor has to deal with.

I don't ever approach anything from the issue first, so I can't tell you that I've thought about tackling universal health care. I'd have to have some great story I'd want to tell, and then universal health care would become part of the way to tell that story.

I'll continue to work with my colleagues to fight efforts to roll back access to affordable health care for Nevadans.

I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.