Mazie Hirono Quotes

There's no way we're going to have low cost health insurance in a world of high cost medicine.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Millions of Americans who are not poor are health care poor.

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

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

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

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.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

The average man with a need for an operation cannot afford a first class hospital …My medical pills run $400 to $500 a month and hell, I feel pretty good … Costs must be tempered..

The Republican Health Care Plan is 'Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.

With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

If you're sick, you should be able to see a doctor. And if you're seen, you should be able to afford the bill and your medicine without going broke. There is absolutely nothing radical about this.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.