Bart Stupak Quotes

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

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

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.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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.

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.

Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

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

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 support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

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.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

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.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

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

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.