Michele Bachmann Quotes

Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

We will have health care reform in America.

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

I believe in health care reform.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Like many of you, I was very disappointed at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.

It's clear that health care is a concern for people all across the country regardless of their political stripe or where they live.

Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.