Bernie Sanders Quotes

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

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

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

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.

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.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Health care is a right, not a privilege. In order for that right to be shared by everyone, it's very important that we eliminate free riders. Everybody should be participating. The bigger the pool, the lower the cost, the healthier the country.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

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.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

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

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.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

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

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

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.

I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.

We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

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.

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