Healthcare Policy Quotes

Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

As the nation's attention turns from Washington politics to the Obamacare disaster, Democrats will have no choice but to reconsider our fair and reasonable proposals to delay the law.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

Reformers in Washington need to do a better job of explaining how market-based alternatives to ObamaCare are a better outcome for the structure and delivery of health care.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

Obamacare is not working for Mississippians, who have had fewer choices and higher costs since that bill was passed.

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.

That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

We can have more jobs in small businesses if 'Obamacare' is eliminated.

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Ultimately, the decision to expand Medicaid is one of common sense and necessity; the facts make it clear that it is good for state economies, good for hospitals, and good for the people who need healthcare coverage.

I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a "patients’ rights" label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.