Jan Schakowsky Quotes

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not be job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

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

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

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

We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

I believe in health care reform.

I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

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

If the health insurance plan members of Congress have is good enough for them, why isn’t it good enough for every American.

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.

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

I'll continue to work with my colleagues to fight efforts to roll back access to affordable health care for Nevadans.