Bob McDonnell Quotes

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

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.

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

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

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

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.

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.

One of the reasons I've been interested in the US health care is that here is something you can do, that could lift one of the largest burdens of worry from the shoulders of tens of millions of people for whom the rest of the economy isn't working. A lot of the things that are in Obamacare that Republicans don't like were deliberately put there to force Republicans to negotiate. Republicans wouldn't negotiate, so we got Obamacare with all of the fur on it. Once it's there, of course, it's very hard to take health care benefits away from people, as the Republicans discovered.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

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.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

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

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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.

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.