Ron Williams Quotes

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

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

When I hear about Mainers rationing their medication or losing their life-savings despite being insured, I know our health care system requires major reform.

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.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

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.

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

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

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.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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 believe in health care reform.

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

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

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.

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