Heidi Heitkamp Quotes

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

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.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

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 believe in health care reform. I believe that HMS’s should be sued.

When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.

No matter where I go, the number one concern I hear from Mainers is health care.

Health care is one of the top kitchen table issues in Nevada.

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

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

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

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

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

We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

One issue that affects every American is health care.

I think we'd be cutting off our hand to spite our face if we demonize private health care.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.