Krystal Ball Quotes

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

The Trump administration has been quietly moving to systematically undermine health care putting lives at risk and offering no alternative solution.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

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.

It is a lot easier to find gaps in the health care system than to find ways to fill them.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

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

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

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.

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

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.