Scott Gottlieb Quotes

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

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.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

I think Medicaid harms people.

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

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

Lawmakers who attempt to find solutions to the havoc ObamaCare has wreaked across the nation are taking healthcare protections away from newborns.

We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.

When President Trump promised we would get better, cheaper health care that would fix the problems of the Affordable Care Act, I hoped it was true. Unfortunately, the American Healthcare Act promises giant cuts to the programs that I and every other poor, sick and disabled person have relied on for our lives.