John Yarmuth Quotes

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.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

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

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

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.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

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 am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

When you're talking about comprehensive health care, you're going to make a lot of people unhappy.

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's version.

We need to make every effort to ensure Obamacare is never implemented.

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

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.