Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

I believe in health care reform.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.

We will have health care reform in America.

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

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

I think we have to repair our broken health care system.

We must continue our work to improve and strengthen health care for Georgians, and we must defend the vital protections and programs that protect the health and wellbeing of families across our nation.

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.

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

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

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

By redesigning our health care system, we are participating in one of the greatest social experiments in American history.

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

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

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

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

It came down to the AHCA or the continued disaster of Obamacare, which was an easy choice. The AHCA is a major improvement, because a federal one-size-fits-all approach to health care isn't the answer.

What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.

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

I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.

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