John Fleming Quotes

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

People do not want that public option.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

... socialized medicine by the back door.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.

I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

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.

This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.