Tulsi Gabbard Quotes

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

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

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Economic factors are critically important in the prevention of illness.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

How can we continue to condone a system which heals those who can pay but says to hell with those who can't.

Never again are we going to have a little old lady, sick as a dog, turned away from a hospital because she has no money.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.

I think Medicaid harms people.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.