Sara Gideon Quotes

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

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

I'll continue to work with my colleagues to fight efforts to roll back access to affordable health care for Nevadans.

I've said from the beginning that Obamacare is an imperfect piece of legislation that is designed to do a very important thing for this country. It's not perfect, and repealing it is a terrible idea.

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers.

I don't want to fix Obamacare, I want to get rid of it.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

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

I received free health care.

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

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.

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.