Health Care Equality Quotes

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

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

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

We checked the Constitution, and we don't see where it gives you the right to universal health insurance.

Every big company is essentially a socialized health republic, in which the young subsidize the old, and the healthy subsidize the sick—all of whom pay the same [health insurance] premiums for the same plans.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

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

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high school kids - get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.

I don’t think that anyone should gain a competitive advantage by providing or not providing health care insurance. This is an area where government must get involved.

Getting people health insurance is a good thing, and that's what Tom Stemberg fought for.

We cannot allow the Trump administration to invalidate our nation's health care law.

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.

The American people want change. They don't want the same old health care system that's not affordable, that doesn't offer coverage to everybody, that keeps escalating in cost. And what we've seen from the Republicans is, really, a desire to have the status quo.

Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

Investing in girls and women is the smartest thing we can do, and will help us to improve opportunities for all people. With equal access to education, health care, employment, and representation in political and economic decision-making, girls and women are force to be reckoned with.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent allied with Democrats, has championed Medicare for All, which would give every American coverage through the federal health insurance program for seniors. Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants Medicare coverage for anyone over the age of 55.