“Hillary Clinton talks about health care. Why didn't she do something about it? She talks about taxes. Why didn't she do something about it? She doesn't do anything about anything other than talk.” CareTaxesClintonHealth Care Author:Donald Trump
“After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.” FirstsChildrenDoneCareRunningAbleLawSufferingPresidentDangerNew YorkRepublicanMembersMedicineHealth CareGovernorsReservesMayorsNational Guard Author:Hillary Clinton
“If we repeal [ Barack Obama's health care law] as Donald [Trump] has proposed, all of those benefits I have mentioned are lost to everybody...and then we will have to start all over again.” IfsCareLawLostTrumpBenefitsBarackHealth Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.” CareDifficultDecisionCasesSupportImagineHealth CareIntimateGuaranteesWadeRoe V Wade Author:Hillary Clinton
“I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.” CareDecisionRightsHealth CareParenthoodWomens RightsWadePlanned ParenthoodRoe V Wade Author:Hillary Clinton
“For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.” PeopleCareCan DoAgreeSecureReformHealth CareExpertsHealth Care System Author:Barack Obama
“Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.” ShouldGovernmentCareEconomyIssuesEconomicHugeInvolvedCrisisHealth CareEconomic CrisisProxy Author:Barack Obama
“[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.” PeopleSaidCareFightingTermPoorPolicyTrumpRaisesHealth CarePushingWagesPoor PeopleAffordableAffordable Health Care Author:Jesse Jackson
“I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a tremendous burden on our economy, a tremendous burden on health care, it creates all of this medicine, which is good medicine. It would be one of the most important things we could do. It, also would help the economy. A tremendous amount of money is taken out of our economy and a tremendous that is created by these frivolous lawsuits.” ThinkingImportantHelpingWould BeCareDealsEconomyIssuesTakenAmountMajorsImportant ThingsMedicineBurdenHealth CareFrivolousLawsuit Author:Rudy Giuliani
“What the Affordable Care Act started was a change in the American health care system from paying for procedures to paying for outcomes, paying for health. Other nations have already made that move. We pay for procedures and we get the best procedures in the world and we get the most procedures in the world, and then we spend a huge chunk of our GDP on health care, but we don't have the best outcomes.” WorldMadeCareMovingNationsPayHugeHealth CareOutcomesProceduresAffordableChunksGdpHealth Care SystemAffordable Care Act Author:Tim Kaine
“Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can build up enough popular support in the United States to put through a reasonable health care program or to support the rights of the working people against the version of NAFTA which was rammed through, these can be good things.” PeopleIfsStatesEnoughCareUnitedUnited StatesSupportRightsExampleProgramGood ThingsBe GoodVersionsReformHealth CareReasonableInitiativeHope For The FutureNafta Author:Noam Chomsky
“If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.” IfsHardCareTermMillionsHugeTrumpAdvantageHandleHealth CareHard To Handle Author:Van Jones
“If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingCareHappenedHavensUnionsLondonSocialismCommunismHealth CareSovietSoviet UnionFundingCommunism And Socialism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.” HardCareStreetsWallTrumpHealth CareFabricJournalRipObamacareWovenWall Street Journal Author:David Brooks
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“This statement, this transgression, this issue whereas if you look at the Fox News poll - CNN, ABC, NBC, everybody was there."CBS" polls, you see that Americans were very focused on jobs and the economy, health care, immigration, terrorism. I mean, the cues and clues to this election were right in front of him the whole time.” IfsLooksMeanWholeCareJobsEconomyIssuesFrontsNewsElectionTerrorismFocusedImmigrationStatementsHealth CareFoxesCluePollsCnnFox NewsTransgressionNbc Author:Kellyanne Conway
“We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.” NeedsHumansChildrenCareSecurityOur ChildrenHealth Care Author:Mairead Corrigan
“Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.” IfsWorldNeedsBigsCareEconomyIssuesHealth CareDragFlexibleAmerican Economy Author:Karl Rove
“Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.” CareCoursesEconomyTerribleHealth CareCuba Author:Bernie Sanders
“It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.” PeopleDreamCareLeftEducationalHealth CareAspirationDecentDictatorshipCubaGood HealthEducational SystemHealth Care System Author:Bernie Sanders
“The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba.” MadeCarePoliticalDifficultEconomyEconomicHealth CareMassiveSovietCollapseCubaCubanStubbornnessCastroSubsidiesHealth Care SystemEconomic Change Author:Tom Gjelten
“A business does not start up because it needs to provide jobs for a community. That's not why it happens. It's another example of how woefully inept our economic education is. The left would have you believe that a corporation exists for health care.” NeedsBelieveDoeHappensCareJobsLeftCommunityEconomicExampleHealth CareCorporations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Barack] Obama did not run on anything. Obama ran on (Obama impression) "I'll be whatever you want me be. If you want me to reduce the sea levels, I'll do it. If you want me to cool the planet, I'll cool the planet. You want health care, I'll do it."” IfsWantCareRunningLevelsSeaPlanetsImpressionBarackHealth CareRanWant MeYou Want MeIf You Want Me Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.” CareAmericaHouseRepublicanBasesBillsProtectionHealth CareRepresentativesShockedCoalProvisionPensionBipartisanMinersHouse Of RepresentativesCoal Miners Author:Claire McCaskill
“On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate this law. They have no real alternative. They're afraid to take away health care from the 20 million people who now have it.” PeopleBookRealCareLawWishDifficultMillionsRepublicanEvidenceAlternativesHealth CareObamacare Author:Jonathan Chait
“Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything for these 20 million people because they were outside the system. Now they're inside the system. Taking away their health care imposes all kind of political pain. We don't know the outcome, but every passing day it show how difficult it is for Trump to deprive them of what they now have.” PeopleKnowsKindShowsCarePainPoliticalDifficultMillionsTrumpPassingPassingsAll KindsHealth CareOutcomesCategories Author:Jonathan Chait
“America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.” IfsCareRunningAmericaGuyLeftDifficultDoorsHavensNew YorkProveHealth CareBordersThings To DoAddressesTake MePermitStrictAirportsDifficult ThingsHandcuffs Author:Nigel Farage
“Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.” YearsCareCostBillionsImmigrationHealth CareIllegalExpensesTaxpayersIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal ImmigrationIncarceration Author:Ric Keller
“People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.” PeopleWorldCareTodayFacesChallengesTechnologyGroupsTradeEducatedReformHealth CareDividesWorld TodayHealth Care SystemChallenges We Face Author:Tony Blair
“If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.” PeopleIfsGovernmentCareAgeConditionsSubjectsEnglandPaidHealth CareWorth Living Author:Nat Hentoff
“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.” PeopleIfsBelieveEndsCareAgeUsedCertainTermConditionsSeriousDoctorsBillsDon't BelieveAlternativesHealth CareMedicareEnd Of LifeHyperbole Author:Nat Hentoff
“The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.” BookCarePresidentIssuesBritishBarackHealth CareTomsPresident Barack ObamaEnamoredCzars Author:Nat Hentoff
“I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.” YearsCareMillionsBattleSixAdvertisingHealth Care Author:Barack Obama
“Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.” CareGoneCostDollarsRateBillionsSavedHealth CareObamacareTreasuryHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.” PeopleWorldCountryCareEarthPayIndustryDrugMajorsHighestHealth CareGuaranteesPrescriptionsPharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmacyPharmaceutical Industry Author:John Lewis
“What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to sit down and say it's OK, what are the problems. How do we address it? How do we move to universal health care? How do we lower prescription drug costs? How do we make sure that people don't have outrageous deductibles? You just don't throw 20 million people off of health insurance. You don't privatize Medicare.” PeopleProblemCareMovingMillionsCostDrugUniversalDown AndAlternativesHealth CareAddressesSensibleOutrageousAffordablePrescriptionsMedicarePrescription DrugsAffordable Care ActUniversal Health Care Author:John Lewis
“Those are things that we're going to be discussing over the next several weeks. But certainly ObamaCare is something that isn't very popular around the country. In fact, it's like an 80/20 issue right now for Republicans. It's not working. People aren't choosing their doctor. They're not keeping their health care. Premiums are not going down, they're going up.” PeopleCountryFactsCareNextIssuesWeekRepublicanRight NowDoctorsHealth CareObamacareDiscussingVery Popular Author:Reince Priebus
“We will cover those folks that are on ObamaCare that need to be covered, but at the same time, we're going to find ways to lower prices, allow people to choose better doctors, and have a lot more freedom when it comes to health care.” PeopleWayNeedsCareDoctorsFolksHealth CareCoveredObamacare Author:Reince Priebus
“Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.” KnowsWellsGovernmentCareEasySimpleIdealsOrganizationWorkersPrimariesHealth CareHospitalsCapabilitySimple ThingsSuppliesBasicsStrengthening Author:Bill Gates
“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantHappensCareLawDesireIndividualWishLevelsAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceInstitutionsAccessPursueHealth CareExcellentTransgenderTransAffirmativeKinship Author:Judith Butler
“I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.” PeopleShouldBelieveRealCareI BelieveDecisionIncludingHealth CareTransgenderAuthentic Life Author:Gloria Steinem
“I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.” IfsYearsCareFightingGrowthSupportStreetsWallCoupleUniversalClimateClimate ChangeAccomplishIncomeInequalityHealth CareDelightedIncome InequalityUniversal Health Care Author:Kevin Drum
“If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.” IfsCareTodayFingersFranceHealth CareIf I CouldSnapsImportsHealth Care System Author:Kevin Drum
“The president-elect [Donald Trump] has set a very aggressive agenda, and I think that repealing and replacing Obamacare with the kind of health care reform that'll lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government will be job one.” ThinkingKindGovernmentCareJobsPresidentGrowingTrumpCostSizeReformHealth CareAgendasAggressiveObamacareHealth Care ReformRepealingSize Of Government Author:Mike Pence
“Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.” CareLawProcessStepsSupportTakenRepublicanDemocratCongressHealth CareInitialsAffordableAffordable Care ActRallyingAlready TakenRepealing Author:Rachel Martin
“Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].” PeopleCareClassMiddleAverageHealth CareMiddle ClassCountyObamacare Author:Rachel Martin
“Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.” PeopleCareChallengesUniversalHealth CareNo MoneyCubanCastroEducation For AllUniversal EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Obamacare is an absolute disaster! And half the country knows it's a disaster because the alternative media read the bill and told you what's in it and gave you the absolute anti-American contents to this piece-of-garbage bill. Half of the country doesn't know what's in it. They think it's free health care because that's what Obama's been out lying to people, you keep your doctor, keep your plan and your premium's coming down $2,500. People were lied to through his teeth. And they believed him.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryCareLyingHalfPiecesPlansMediaDoctorsAbsolutesBillsDisasterTeethAlternativesHealth CareGarbageLiedObamacarePremiumAnti-american Author:Rush Limbaugh