Jagmeet Singh Quotes

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

We all know we're probably the only industrialized nation that doesn't provide health care.

Expanding health coverage is not a technical issue but a political one; it should be seen as a right and a means to development.

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.

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

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.

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're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

I want a national health policy where everyone is covered—just like we have in the military.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That's completely different from saying the government can solve all of those problems, or that it can micromanage every aspect of the health delivery system. I think we know that it can't do that.

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market.

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage - that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.

Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

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