Carl Hiaasen Quotes

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

One of the clear problems of Obamacare is that it was perceived, I think rightly, as one party forcing its vision of how healthcare should be upon the rest of the country.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

What we need are more good doctors and fewer bad health plans.

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will continue to work to bring resources, accountability and relief to our health care system.

I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important.

As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.

Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.