“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.” WorldWayFirstsBelieveMaySaidCareJobsThreeEnergyPresidentNumbersTechnologyIssuesEconomicCreationThirdsInnovationCleanClimateReformHealth CareClassroomInitiativeInnovativeRemarksPillarsNew TechnologyClean EnergyJob CreationHealth Care Reform Author:Nancy Pelosi
“There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.” WayShouldGovernmentCareChoicesPartyLeaderWillingHealthCompetitionReformHealth CareAddressesBarriersRight WayConsensusWay ForwardHealth Care Reform Author:Paul Ryan
“If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.” IfsWayCareGoalHonestCostApproachUniversalReformHealth CareComprehensiveHealth Care ReformUniversal Health Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.” StatesCareLawPresidentUnitedUnited StatesReformHealth CareTitlesAccurateObamacareAffordableHealth Care ReformAffordable Care ActDisparaging Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.” WorldFirstsGovernmentCareTermAdministrationReformHealth CareAccomplishmentDividedHealth Care ReformMarqueeDivided Government Author:Eliot Spitzer
“And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.” EnoughFactsCareHurtKeysBenefitsLosingBillsReformHealth CareUpsetGet AwayDiscontentCoverageHealth Care Reform Author:Juan Williams
“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.” WritingSelfCareRunningWinningPartyConcernVoteIndependentElectionDemocratSpendingBunchReformTeaHealth CareDestructiveRacistVotersSwingsDeficitFringeEntitlementOutrageTea PartySelf DestructiveHealth Care ReformDeficit Spending Author:Juan Williams
“Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.” FirstsFactsCareLibertyTaxesBusyLibertarianReformHealth CareWelfareLibertarianismAdmissionImplicitHealth Care ReformEducation ReformTax ReformHandiworkWelfare Reform Author:Lawrence Reed
“We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.” PeopleNeedsHumansCareSufferingTurnsResponseReformHealth CareCatholicismHuman NeedsFaith BasedHealth Care Reform Author:Simone Campbell
“Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.” EnoughBigsGovernmentCarePartyRepublicanOfficeProgramDemocratSpendingFavorsReformHealth CareVotersHispanicGovernment SpendingHealth Care ReformOutreach Author:Gail Collins
“I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.” NeedsCareReformHealth CareHealth Care Reform Author:Jim Renacci
“If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.” IfsKnowsEnoughFactsShowsBodyCareFormRoomsMillionsReformHealth CareEmsBagsEmergenciesGopHealth Care ReformEmergency Room Author:Montel Williams
“If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.” PeopleIfsShowsCareAblePoliticalBreakSolutionsAreasReformHealth CareOur SocietyHealth Care ReformWaterloo Author:Jim DeMint
“We will have health care reform in America.” CareAmericaReformHealth CareReformationHealth Care Reform Author:Dick Durbin
“It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.” CareReformHealth CareMore MoneyDumpHealth Care ReformMedicaid Author:Phil Bredesen
“One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.” CareAmericaPayNeededTaxesConcernedDoctorsIncreaseMedicinePatientBillionsReformHealth CareBudgetsFundDestroyingReservesPaymentProvisionHealth Care ReformTax IncreasesSocialized Medicine Author:Paul Broun
“[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.” WritingCareSocialismReformHealth CareAwakeRepresentativesProposalMedicareHealth Care Reform Author:Ronald Reagan
“The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.” StatesCareLastsNightHouseConstitutionReformHealth CareRepresentativesLegislationSovereigntyLast NightReformationHouse Of RepresentativesHealth Care Reform Author:Bill McCollum
“Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.” WholeMightCareHouseWinningIndividualEnergyEnjoyNaturalWhiteSupportSecurityNeededRepublicanTaxesMajorsLowsEuropeAddFruitWideReformHealth CareCorporateRangeBordersGasAgendasWhite HouseSenateEasternNotableObamacareMandatesBipartisanPipelineEastern EuropeNatural GasKeystonesHealth Care ReformDeregulationTax ReformBorder SecurityCenterpieces Author:Charles Krauthammer
“A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?” Has BeensWould BeCareJobsLawNextHouseNamesPiecesWeekStupidRepublicanHorrorMajorsVoteBillsKillingCome UpReformHealth CareShootingTitlesWeekendLegislationColleaguesSuggestingOne PieceNext WeekGood PlaceStupidestHealth Care Reform Author:Chellie Pingree
“Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.” GivingBelieveGovernmentCareCompanyDrugAuthorityDemocratReformHealth CareFederal GovernmentComprehensiveReformationHealth Care ReformDrug Companies Author:Jim Clyburn
“Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.” PeopleNeedsCareMissingMarkAgreeBillsCongressReformHealth CareReformationHealth Care Reform Author:John Mica
“I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.” BelieveCareI BelieveI Believe InReformHealth CareHealth Care Reform Author:Joe Manchin
“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.” WellsCarePoliticalDecisionMistakeNegativeCourtSupremeReformHealth CareEggsSupreme CourtBasketsHealth Care Reform Author:Eric Alterman
“President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.” WellsCareUsedFoundPresidentCompanyCuttingWasteSavingReformHealth CareFraudPresident ObamaSavingsMedicareSubsidiesInsurance CompaniesHealth Care Reform Author:Stephanie Cutter
“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.” KindCareUsedSignificantReformHealth CareLegislationDeficitReconciliationComprehensiveReductionHealth Care Reform Author:Kent Conrad
“I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.” Has BeensCareNationsClearCampaignsReformHealth CareMantrasRobustHealth Care Reform Author:John Garamendi
“Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.” CareReformHealth CareStarting OverHealth Care Reform Author:Jaime Herrera Beutler