Krystal Ball Quotes

Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn't unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there's something wrong with them.

It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

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

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

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.

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

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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

We don't need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can't work.

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

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

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

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

If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.

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.

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.

I am a supporter of Medicare for All.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

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.