Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

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

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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

The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare - but also becoming a healthier population.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

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.

[Advocating health care reform:] We've got to remove the incentive for people on welfare to stay on welfare because that's the only way they'll get health care.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I believe health care is a civil right.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.