Christina Romer Quotes

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn't unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there's something wrong with them.

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

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

The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.

I know that we are supposed to believe that once voters learn the truth about medicare for all they are going to suddenly turn on it but it's not like the scary industry talking points are a secret.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is going on with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, because they are beginning to appoint people who are typical right-wing Republicans who want to privatize and cut Social Security.

The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.