Health Coverage Quotes

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

Expanding health coverage is not a technical issue but a political one; it should be seen as a right and a means to development.

The goal should be universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care.

We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.

From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

Yes, I have benefited from the ObamaCare provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.