Charlie Norwood Quotes

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

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

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

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

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

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

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

We will have health care reform in America.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

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.

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

It is a lot easier to find gaps in the health care system than to find ways to fill them.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

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.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

America doesn't have health insurance.

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.