Steve Scalise Quotes

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

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.

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

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

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

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.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

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.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

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.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

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.

I believe in health care reform.

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

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

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

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

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

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