Nan Hayworth Quotes

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

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

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.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

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.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

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

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

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.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

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.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.