Steve Scalise Quotes

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I can tell you, Obamacare, I have been stunned by the pratfalls associated with its implementation. I simply can't understand how a president that had such an effective technology campaign and has such support among the technology community members could have put in place the implementation of Obamacare as ineffectively as he did.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

I want to go to Washington to make sure we really have an opportunity to expand health care for folks so that is accessible to them.

Not passing Obamacare won't bankrupt America; passing it will.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.