J. B. Pritzker Quotes

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

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.

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

The only way to get universal health coverage is to put people in jail who refuse to buy health insurance, and we're not going to do that.

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

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

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

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.

I believe health care is a civil right.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

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

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

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.

I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.

... socialized medicine by the back door.