Jerrold Nadler Quotes

One person uninsured is one person too many.

America doesn't have health insurance.

Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Half of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are due to high medical expenses. Millions of Americans are living one illness away from financial disaster.

We’ve got to have some kind of universal medical coverage and we have to have a more efficient system.

The Republican Health Care Plan is 'Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

New Jerseyans and their loved ones who live with a pre-existing condition should not have to worry whether or not their health insurance plan will cover them.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

A big reason I ultimately decided to run was because of my family's experience when my mom was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and did not have health insurance at the time.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

So when you hear these lies about how we can't possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.

When I hear about Mainers rationing their medication or losing their life-savings despite being insured, I know our health care system requires major reform.

I don't want to die in a race car.

Everyone I know who skis is dead.