Shonda Rhimes Quotes

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

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

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

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

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

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.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

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

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

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

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

While Senator Collins continues to put the Affordable Care Act - and protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions - at risk, I've fought to protect and expand access to health care here in Maine.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation's health care system.

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.