Gail Collins Quotes

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

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

We all know we're probably the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide health care.

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.

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.

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 believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

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

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

… a system of national health insurance so that a worker can afford decent health care for himself and his family.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

We must protect those with pre-existing conditions and ensure that every American family has access to quality, affordable health care.

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.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

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.

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.

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

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're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

I believe in health care reform.