Michael Bennett Quotes

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 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 think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

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

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

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 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.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

We will have health care reform in America.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

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

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

We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

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

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

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.

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

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.

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

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.