David Scott Quotes

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

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

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

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.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

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

Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America's sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?

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

We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.

The thing with Elizabeth Warren that you have to keep in mind is she is very far left. I think a lot of folks who may have considered voting for someone like Joe Biden are going to be very turned off by ideas like universal health care, which would essentially force 200 million Americans off of private health insurance.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.

I want to make sure more people - not fewer - have access to quality, affordable health care.