“Many people have already lost their health care, millions already lost their health care, because they have it and can't use it because of the explosive skyrocketing premiums, or they literally lost their doctors or insurance plans or their access to health care through Obamacare.” PeopleUseCareLostMillionsPlansDoctorsAccessHealth CareObamacareExplosives Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.” ThinkingCareRepublicanFundamentalsPrivilegeHealth CareDisagreement Author:Joe Biden
“I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.” IfsBelieveCareI BelievePeriodsHealth CareEntitledAdequate Author:Joe Biden
“Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.” KnowsMenCareTrumpHealth CareGood ManHealth Care System Author:Joe Biden
“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.” PeopleHeartCareCompanyConditionsHealthyHealth CareWealthyAffordableBansInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care Act Author:Ron Wyden
“I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.” WayGivingIdeasCareAmericaChoicesForceCenturyMilitaryBuildingColdOffersTaxesCommitmentRewardsHealth CareCodeEnterprise21st CenturyVeteranBetter WaysBureaucratsFree EnterpriseLobbyistsCluelessOur VeteransFree ChoiceHealth Care SystemEnterprising Author:Paul Ryan
“Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.” IfsWritingHandsCarePoliticalGuyOrderNamesFateRightsWrittenDoorsIndustryBillsBarackHealth CareCorporatePreservesOppositionFriendlyCheeksWomens RightsGangPledgeMaxBrassWadeKnucklesPunchingRevolvingSpitefulRoe V WadeFinanciersSurlyRevolving Doors Author:Bill Moyers
“I think the Democrats are trying to say is like in February [2017] it goes away and you won`t have your health care plan tomorrow. That`s not what we`re talking about.” ThinkingTryingCareTalkingPlansTomorrowDemocratHealth CareFebruary Author:Paul Ryan
“Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn`t work.” HumansGovernmentCareUsedAmountHarderEnormousHealth CareAffordableDiscretionAffordable Health CareHuman Service Author:Paul Ryan
“Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, and work for fair trade rules. Well, it's exactly the same for human rights - from non-discrimination to the basic rights to food, safe water, education and health care. We are talking rights not needs. There are standards that governments have signed up to - but nobody is holding them to account.” NeedsTryingHumansWellsLooksGovernmentCareWaterTalkingEnvironmentRightsSafeStandardsFairsAccountsRegardTradeCleanHuman RightsLifestyleDiscriminationHealth CareIndigenousIndigenous PeopleFair TradeBasic Rights Author:Mary Robinson
“This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.” TryingProblemCareStuffGunMedicineConservativeBunchHealth CareGun ControlBreaking DownSocialized Medicine Author:Barack Obama
“I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneShowsCarePrinciplesTrumpMajorityNotionIncludingCongressCoreBarsAdministrationHealth CareSupporterRepealing Author:Barack Obama
“The health care provisions are presumably for individuals. And whoever pays for them, whether it's paid by the individual, state, whatever, the value is an individually based value. It has nothing to do with employment.” StatesCareValuesIndividualPayPaidEmploymentHealth CareProvision Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as a right. Actually, it exists in every other major country on earth. You don't know that, because the media has forgotten to tell you that. But it does exist. In Denmark, because of union negotiations, the minimum wage is about $20 an hour. In Germany, you go to college tuition-free. In Finland, they actually pay you to go to college. Now, you don't know that in America because CBS forgot to tell you. But that is the reality.” PeopleKnowsShouldDoeIdeasCountryRealityCareEarthLastsAmericaNightHoursPayMediaCollegeMajorsWake UpUnionsForgottenHealth CareGermanyGuaranteesMinimumNegotiationLast NightGreat IdeaMinimum WageDenmarkTuitionFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“Hillary Clinton is on record supporting a doubling of community health centers in this country, which will mean that tens of millions of people - poor people - will have access to health care that do not have it today. Is that significant? It is very significant.” PeopleMeanCountryCareTodayCommunityPoorMillionsRecordsClintonAccessSignificantHealth CarePoor PeopleCommunity Health Author:Bernie Sanders
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” InspirationalWellsFeelingsMorningTerribleHealthyAdultsSevenAverageGet UpHealth CareThirtyGood MorningFunny Good Morning Author:Jean Kerr
“What`s going to happen, really on one issue specifically, to their health care, among some other things. And right now, Republicans don`t have any legislative details or much in the way of answers, yet.” WayHappensCareAnswersIssuesRepublicanRight NowDetailsHealth Care Author:Chuck Todd
“Over and over again we learn that Obama nor any of his people high up in whatever bureaucracy can accomplish any of these things. They can't do a website. They can't roll out Obamacare. They can't improve health care. They can't run the VA. They can't run the IRS honestly. They turn as much of it as they can into a political weapon furthering the agenda of the president.” PeopleCareRunningPoliticalTurnsPresidentWeaponsAccomplishHonestlyHealth CareAgendasBureaucracyWebsiteObamacareIrs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it.” MatterCareDetailsBarackHealth CareHealth Care System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.” ThinkingBelieveProblemBigsCareTogetherEnergyPartyIssuesProudRepublicanSolutionsDemocratSolveCriticalPracticalsHealth CareBig ProblemsAffiliation Author:Barack Obama
“[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.” CareUnderstandingPolicyClintonHealth CareEstablishmentForeign PolicyOngoingHealth Care System Author:Reid Hoffman
“Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.” PeopleWorldWellsHardCareSchoolAmericaStrongNationsSupportEconomyBuildingMembersFundamentalsIncludingUniversityHealth CarePublic SchoolDistinguishedAffordableFamily MembersHealth Care SystemAffordable Care ActHard Days Author:Joaquin Castro
“Obama's devastating America. The policies put in place and those that are gonna be put in place are gonna do even more damage. I mean, it's serious what he's doing. Did you see this? The IRS announced that the family health care premium, once Obamacare is implemented, is $20,000 a year. You were told your premium was gonna go down $2,500 a year! The average family premium is going to be $20,000 a year. I guarantee you, people didn't vote for that.” PeopleYearsMeanCareAmericaPolicySeriousVoteAverageHealth CareDamageGuaranteesObamacareIrsPremium Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.” StatesCareRepublicanTaxesHappeningsGunCrisisMajorityPressesStartingHearingImmigrationResistanceReformHealth CareOppositionGovernorsObamacareCoverageTax Reform Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.” MeanGovernmentCareBehaviorHealth CareFederal Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.” GovernmentCareLossHealth CareExpansionObamacare Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.” PeopleWantGovernmentCareJobsRepublicanOfficeDoctorsPatientHealth CarePencilsDoctors And Patients Author:Jim Sensenbrenner
“It's not enough just to be in a panic. We don't have the luxury to be depressed about Trump. We have to look at issues like health care and the price of pharmaceuticals, the $15 minimum wage and things that actually make a huge difference in a lot of people's lives. That's feminist.” PeopleLooksEnoughCareDifferencesIssuesHugeTrumpFeministLuxuryHealth CarePanicMinimumMinimum Wage Author:Susan Sarandon
“The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.” ShouldCareAblePovertySeriousShould HaveIllnessBurdenDrivenAccessHealth CareEquityPoorestBreakdownHealth SystemSerious Illness Author:Mary Robinson
“One of the richest countries in the world - the United States of America - is facing a real ethical dilemma in terms of providing equitable access to health care.” WorldRealCountryStatesCareAmericaTermUnitedUnited StatesAccessHealth CareEthicalProvidingUnited States Of AmericaDilemmaEquitableEthical Dilemmas Author:Mary Robinson
“The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.” PeopleHas BeensProblemCareAbleParentCitiesEconomyConditionsEffectsHugeDrugHolesHealth CareGapsSeniorBostonImplicationsAffordablePrescriptionsMedicareMillennialsDetrimentalPrescription DrugsDonutsAffordable Care ActRepealingAca Author:Marty Walsh
“Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.” CareDestructionDestroyedHealth CareRuinedObamacareHealth Care System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you don't want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don't have to. If you don't want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it's your choice. It's called freedom. It's called free market health care.” IfsWantUseCareChoicesPlansTaxesCreditHealth CareFree Market Author:Paul Ryan
“The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.” CarePatientHealth CareNucleusHealth Care System Author:Paul Ryan
“We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.” WayWantCareCompanyBecomingBenefitsDoctorsHealth CareConsumersHospitalsCompetingMonopolyProvidersInsurance CompaniesFavoritism Author:Paul Ryan
“The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.” KindCountryStatesCareUnitedUnited StatesRichUniqueHealth CareHealth Care SystemDeveloped CountryRich Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.” CountryCareWorstCostHealth CareOutcomesScandalHealth Care System Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.” CareCoursesHealth CareHealth Care System Author:Noam Chomsky
“What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or as much as the population wants it to go, but to make it a little better and a little more affordable.” WantShouldLittlesCareEffortPopulationHealth CareObamacareAffordableHealth Care System Author:Noam Chomsky
“Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.” IfsWorldWayGovernmentCareLawOrderEffectsSecurityWillingDependsRepublicanGoldBasesWingsFinancialInternationalFinanceHealth CareDepartmentSevereCredibilityRight WingTreasuryReactionariesFinancial SystemValuelessUs Treasury Author:Noam Chomsky
“Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation.” PeopleWarCareIntegrityConversationCrisisDemocraticClimateDenyHealth Care Author:Al Gore
“If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.” IfsFeelsCareStruggleIssuesWho You AreHealth CareApartmentEmployedDocumentation Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think you do this because you have to do it. You pursue any art form because you need it. Because you love it.” ThinkingNeedsArtCareFormNightNamesClubsPursueHealth CarePension Author:Jon Gordon
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama
“The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsCareMillionsProgressCostRateSavingHealth CareFundLowestSavingsObamacareAffordableUndoneMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Care CostsTrust Funds Author:Barack Obama
“I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidCareRepublicanCome UpHealth CareCheaperForums Author:Barack Obama
“I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."” IfsYearsFirstsDoeSaidCareCan DoRepublicanOkaySevenIncludingHealth CareEmsHealthcareSeven YearsSkepticalSomething BetterObamacareCan Do Something Author:Barack Obama
“Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."” PeopleThinkingWellsSaidStoriesCareTrumpHealth Care Author:Barack Obama
“Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.” PeopleHardDoneCareCitizensPoliticianHealth Care Author:Barack Obama