Deb Haaland Quotes

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

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

We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

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.

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

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

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

Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

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.'

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

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

We cannot allow the Trump administration to invalidate our nation's health care law.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

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

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

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.

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.