Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

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

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.

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

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

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

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

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

I want a national health policy where everyone is covered—just like we have in the military.

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

Health is the single most difficult public policy that a Governor has to deal with.

I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That's completely different from saying the government can solve all of those problems, or that it can micromanage every aspect of the health delivery system. I think we know that it can't do that.

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

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

I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare.

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

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

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

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

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.