Barack Obama Quotes

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

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.

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

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.

I want a national health policy where everyone is covered—just like we have in the military.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

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

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

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.

John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

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

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

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.

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

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

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

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

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.