Ron Wyden Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

  Ron Wyden

  America, Broken, Silence

• If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

  Ron Wyden

  Games, Care, Blame

• 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.

  Ron Wyden

  Jobs, Healthy, Care

  "My Movie About Better Health Care [Rated PG-13]" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2011.

• With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.

  Ron Wyden

  Loss, Choices, Care

  "Is This How You Want Your Senate To Do Business?" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

• Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

  Ron Wyden

  Two Sides, Care, Fixing

  "10 Questions with Senator Ron Wyden". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2009.

• 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.

  Ron Wyden

  Working Together, Looks, Care

• Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, Leaving, Rural Areas

• When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

  Ron Wyden

  Home, Care, Veteran

• Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.

  Ron Wyden

  Heart, People, Healthy

  Source: www.npr.org

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