Andrew Card Quotes

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.

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

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

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 am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare - but also becoming a healthier population.

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn't work.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

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.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare…I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our rallies with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people our representatives are representing.

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.