Michael K. Simpson Quotes

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.

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

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

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.

I believe health care is a civil right.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

We must protect those with pre-existing conditions and ensure that every American family has access to quality, affordable health care.

American patients deserve more access to quality, affordable health care.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

… a system of national health insurance so that a worker can afford decent health care for himself and his family.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

Do you really want to pay for surgeon’s salaries by not having low-income people not be able to afford health insurance?