Steve Scalise Quotes

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

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

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 don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

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

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.

Democrats have long held an advantage over Republicans on health care, mostly due to a perceived empathy problem in my party.

I think a common sense approach that provides health care coverage to all Americans is the best way forward.

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.

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

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

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.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

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.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

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.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

When you're talking about comprehensive health care, you're going to make a lot of people unhappy.

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

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most — your health.