Health Care Quotes - Page 9

• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

  Eric Alterman

  Mistake, Eggs, Decision

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• With President Obama, there's a feeling that he gets it. He has women in his life. He knows that our health care is important, that it's important able to get access to the care that we need when we need it. That's what translates. Women hear that when they hear him speak about these issues. He will be a champion and will defend us when we need it.

  Sandra Fluke

  Issues, Champion, Feelings

  "An Interview with DNC Speaker Sandra Fluke". Interview with Sarah Kliff, www.goodreads.com.

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• The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

  John Conyers

  America, Care, Addresses

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• By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

  John Cornyn

  Administration, Would Be, Cost

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• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  Kent Conrad

  Care, Reform, Kind

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

  Diana DeGette

  Creating, Essentials, Saving

  "Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition" by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

  Diana DeGette

  Cost, Care, Driving

  "Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition" by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Law, President, Tunes

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.

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• I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Fighting, Government

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• You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care.

  Joy Behar

  Talking, Different, Care

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• [The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Care, Socialism, Initiative

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• You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

  Eric Cantor

  Country, People, Safety

  "David Plouffe on New Obama Deficit Plan; Rep. Eric Cantor on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

  Karen Mills

  Care, Small Business, Status Quo

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• We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

  Heidi Heitkamp

  Government, Quality, Care

  "Heitkamp on health care: past vs. present" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

  William Kristol

  Government, Obamacare, America

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• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  Abraham Verghese

  Blessed, Thinking, America

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

  Simon Hoggart

  Powerful, Sight, People

  "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

  Dave Obey

  Drug, Quality, Care

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• Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

  Martha Plimpton

  Cost, Care, Financial

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• We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

  Reince Priebus

  Party, Class, Obamacare

  "Interview with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 3, 2012.

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• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  Dan Lipinski

  Decision, Information, Care

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• As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Believe, Men

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders: 'Vermont stands a chance to be the first state in the nation to pass single-payer'". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

  Richard Trumka

  Lying, Sick, Care

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• And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.

  Naomi Klein

  Struggle, Mean, Cutting

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

  Christina Romer

  Running, Thinking, Class

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