Beto O'Rourke Quotes

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

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

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

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.

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

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.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

What we should be focusing on - and finding solutions for - is ensuring that every American has health care in this country, no matter what level, no matter what age. No one should die because they can't afford health insurance. No one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.

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.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

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

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

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.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.

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

The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.

I am a supporter of Medicare for All.

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

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.

We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.