Steve Bullock Quotes

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

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

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

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

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

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

We will have health care reform in America.

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

I don’t think that anyone should gain a competitive advantage by providing or not providing health care insurance. This is an area where government must get involved.

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 want to say nobody should lose their health care.

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

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

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

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

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