Henry Gradison Jr. Quotes

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

We don't have a health care system. We have a health care maze.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

The Trump administration has been quietly moving to systematically undermine health care putting lives at risk and offering no alternative solution.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

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

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

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

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

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.