Stephen Colbert Quotes

For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

One of the consequences of if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, is that all of us now are at risk of being a preexisting - of having a preexisting condition waiting to happen. Life, increasingly, is a preexisting condition waiting to happen, now that we have more and more of this data available.

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn't work.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

Hillary Clinton's done nothing, all she's done is tell everybody that the vets are in good shape. They're fine. And they're not fine. People are waiting in line for seven days to see a doctor.