Jan Schakowsky Quotes

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

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

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

I will fight every day to protect the health of our communities, to provide comprehensive care for our women and our mothers, to defend coverage for those who have pre-existing conditions, and to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, quality health care.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

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

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

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.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

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

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage - that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.

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

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.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

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

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

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.

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

I believe health care is a civil right.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.