Nick Clegg Quotes

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

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

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

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?

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.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.

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

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

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

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

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.

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

I get involved in lots of Twitter spats with lots of people when I think they're not being fair about the progress the NHS is making.

If health care is a $2.7 trillion industry, and a huge percentage is paid by the government, then you have to be involved in politics to make a difference.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.