Todd Park Quotes

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.

We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.

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

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.

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.

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

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

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

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

If we Republicans celebrate that we have repealed Obamacare, and health insurance premiums keep going up, the voters will tar and feather us, and rightly so.

High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

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.