Julian Castro Quotes

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

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.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

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.

Imagine an America where the health care system is dramatically improved simply because people need to go to the doctor less. Preventive health care, aka taking care of your own body, is a sensible way to go!

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

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

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

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 goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

I believe health care is a civil right.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

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

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

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

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

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

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

We're going to do things that are going to make this country better and reduce the cost of health care.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

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