Dan Crenshaw Quotes

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

No doctor should ever have to call an insurance man to ask permission to treat a patient who is standing right there.

Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.

We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.

The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.

By the way, the V.A. has some great doctors. I've been told by some of the veterans the doctors are great when you can get to see them in many cases.

Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

Many of the issues I encountered as acting secretary were not with the quality of medical care but with getting our veterans through the door to reach that care.

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

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

Navigating the healthcare system for children with special health needs can be daunting for families.

I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

The VA MISSION Act signed into law by President Trump will do a great deal to improve access to health care for rural veterans but it will require vigilance to ensure we provide annual appropriations needed to implement it.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?