Ed Pastor Quotes

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

… a system of national health insurance so that a worker can afford decent health care for himself and his family.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

There's no way we're going to have low cost health insurance in a world of high cost medicine.

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

Do you really want to pay for surgeon’s salaries by not having low-income people not be able to afford health insurance?

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.

Somebody's going to pay for health coverage for the American people, and the question is, how do you do that?

It's hard to say that Trump actually has a health care policy.

We must protect those with pre-existing conditions and ensure that every American family has access to quality, affordable health care.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.