Susan Estrich Quotes

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

After decades of false starts, we must make this our most urgent priority, giving every American health security, health care that can never be taken away, health care that is always there.

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.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

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

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

The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.

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

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.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

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

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

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

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

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

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.

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

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

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.