Leo Varadkar Quotes

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

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

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

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.

We will have health care reform in America.

When you're talking about comprehensive health care, you're going to make a lot of people unhappy.

Health is the single most difficult public policy that a Governor has to deal with.

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.

A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation's health care system.

We all know we're probably the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide health care.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

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

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

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.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Canadians often define themselves as having a better public health system than the Americans, this is not mere cultural preference. Besides being a resistance to American ideology, the advocacy for public health is a response to the North American Free Trade Agreement, to globalization.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.