Christine Gregoire Quotes

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

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

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

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

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

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.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

[Advocating health care reform:] We've got to remove the incentive for people on welfare to stay on welfare because that's the only way they'll get health care.

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

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.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.