Jeremy Agar Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

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 don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

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.

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.

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

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

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

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.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

I don’t think that anyone should gain a competitive advantage by providing or not providing health care insurance. This is an area where government must get involved.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.