I get involved in lots of Twitter spats with lots of people when I think they're not being fair about the progress the NHS is making.
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.
You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.
I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
If you're sick, you should be able to see a doctor. And if you're seen, you should be able to afford the bill and your medicine without going broke. There is absolutely nothing radical about this.
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.
Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.
During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
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.
The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.
Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.
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.
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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.
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.
I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.
Let's make sure that we have health care benefits that have been promised to our veterans delivered to them in the communities that they are living in.
Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.
