Ron Wyden Quotes

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

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

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

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

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.

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

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.

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.

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

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

As a dentist and representative, I have seen firsthand the need to make our healthcare system both more accessible and affordable.

We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.

[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.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

I want very much to save what works and is good about the Affordable Care Act.

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.

ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator.

Health care is a right, not a privilege. In order for that right to be shared by everyone, it's very important that we eliminate free riders. Everybody should be participating. The bigger the pool, the lower the cost, the healthier the country.

If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.