Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

If the health insurance plan members of Congress have is good enough for them, why isn’t it good enough for every American.

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

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

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

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

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.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

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

I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

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

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

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

After decades of false starts, we must make this our most urgent priority, giving every American health security, health care that can never be taken away, health care that is always there.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage - that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.