Jacky Rosen Quotes

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.

People suffering from cancer, or diabetes, or asthma or any other preexisting condition shouldn't have to live in fear of losing their coverage or seeing their premiums go through the roof.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

Economic security can vanish in an instant without health security.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

No matter where they live or how much money their parents make, every child deserves access to high-quality health care.

If you don't protect the NHS, you're going to have health ghettoes where people can't get treated.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

Healthcare is consistently the top issue that people talk to me about, and it continues to be one of my top priorities in Congress.

No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.

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.

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We've got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that's fine.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.