Ted Cruz Quotes

At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

One of the reasons I've been interested in the US health care is that here is something you can do, that could lift one of the largest burdens of worry from the shoulders of tens of millions of people for whom the rest of the economy isn't working. A lot of the things that are in Obamacare that Republicans don't like were deliberately put there to force Republicans to negotiate. Republicans wouldn't negotiate, so we got Obamacare with all of the fur on it. Once it's there, of course, it's very hard to take health care benefits away from people, as the Republicans discovered.

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

The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

We got to protect Medicaid.

If Medicare today includes Medicare supplemental, why wouldn't Medicare for all include a Medicare supplement for all who want it?

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

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.

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

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

Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

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