Jan Brewer Quotes

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

The states, just like the Federal government, just can’t let the poor die.

The citizens of this nation gave us - my wife and I - a health care plan that saved our daughter's life.

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.

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

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

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.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

We will have health care reform in America.

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

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

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.

There are very few people on welfare who like it.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.