Jack Kingston Quotes

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

[I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine....On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can also say without hesitation, that the quality of healthcare in this county is second to none - and sacrificing quality to achieve these necessary reforms is not acceptable. A single payer, government run healthcare system is the worst possible way to achieve this goal.

At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

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're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

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.

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

[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.

It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.

If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.

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

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

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

... socialized medicine by the back door.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

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.

Not passing Obamacare won't bankrupt America; passing it will.

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