John Lewis Quotes

The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.

Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

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.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

As a dentist and representative, I have seen firsthand the need to make our healthcare system both more accessible and affordable.

The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.

We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.