Ron Anderson Quotes

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.

Your care and your treatment shouldn't be dictated by your ZIP code.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

Our health system is broken.

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

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.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

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

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.