Catherine Cortez-Masto Quotes

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

What's exciting to me is figuring out something that has eluded us for so long: How do we make sure every single person can see a doctor in this country? That's really exciting to me.

For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for every mother, for every person in this country, to have healthcare.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

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

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

As a dentist and representative, I have seen firsthand the need to make our healthcare system both more accessible and affordable.

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.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.

Health care is a right, not a privilege. In order for that right to be shared by everyone, it's very important that we eliminate free riders. Everybody should be participating. The bigger the pool, the lower the cost, the healthier the country.

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.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

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.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.