“Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.” GovernmentCareRunningRepublicanDon't CareHealth Care Author:Greg Gutfeld
“The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.” PeopleCarePayMissingHealthyRepublicanMarkDemocratArguingDebateReformHealth CareHealth Care Reform Author:T. Colin Campbell
“If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.” IfsCareWhiteEducationHealthHigherRepublicanCostTaxesRaisesDemocratAccessHealth CareWealthyTexasGovernorsDecreaseHigher Education Author:Calvin Jillson
“Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.” WritingIdeasDoneEnoughCareSchoolChoicesEnergyPlansPolicyMinesRepublicanIndependenceHealth CareForeign PolicyObamacareOne LinerTalkersSlickEnergy IndependenceSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.” Has BeensCareRepublicanPerceptionBillsCourtIncludingHealth CareVotersLiability Author:Ron Fournier
“This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.” PeopleWayProblemCareJobsFacesIndividualNationsGoalResponsibilityCompanyPrinciplesIssuesShareRepublicanDemocratHealth CareAllowingPersonal ResponsibilityAffordableMandatesInsurance Companies Author:Mitt Romney
“I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.” NeedsGovernmentCareStrongResponsibilityEconomyOur LivesCitizensRepublicanUnderstoodDefenseHealth CareNeedy Author:Colin Powell
“President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.” MindEndsCareWantedPresidentChangedRepublicanNuclearReformHealth CareIranPresident ObamaThreatenedSummitInputThursdayBipartisanLawmakersHealth Care Reform Author:Argus Hamilton
“Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as opposed to the Republican health care plan, where an accountant would stand between you and your health care.” SaidCareLastsNightPlansRepublicanDoctorsDemocraticHealth CareLast NightBureaucratsMccainAccountants Author:Jay Leno
“Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.” MayStatesCareAblePresidentDarkPartyRepublicanRedImpactDemocraticReformBarackHealth CareRepublican PartyComprehensiveObamacareLegislatureHaltPresident Barack ObamaHealth Care ReformMedicaidState LegislaturesNotice Me Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.” TryingYearsHas BeensCountryUseCareAblePartyTakenExampleStudentsRepublicanTraditionInstitutionsSevenVariousUnhappyMiserableAdministrationBarackHealth CareEmsAgendasRepublican PartyLoanSeven YearsEducation SystemHealth Care SystemStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it. He gave a ridiculous answer on the national debt. And they moved on without pressing him on it. No other candidate could have gotten away with that. So, I think there's a weird bias here in the media rooting for Donald Trump, because they know he's the easiest Republican to beat.” ThinkingKnowsKindCareAnswersPlansMediaTrumpRepublicanBeatsMovedDebtRidiculousHealth CareCandidatesBiasOutlinesMoved OnNational Debt Author:Marco Rubio
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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