Universal Health Care Quotes:

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

topic: Cutting, Years, Law, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises

We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

- Michael Moore

topic: Believe, Suffering, Care, Universal Health Care

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Believe, Care, Not Afraid, Universal Health Care

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Education, Giving Up, Order, Universal Health Care

People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Country, Believe, Mean, Universal Health Care

America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.

- Suzanne Gordon

source: Suzanne Gordon, Claire M. Fagin (2007). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.308, Cornell University Press

topic: Country, Pain, America, Universal Health Care

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.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Goal, Reform, Cost, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care

This is something which I think this country needs... I want universal coverage! I want everyone in Massachusetts and in this country to have insurance. I support universal health care.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Country, Thinking, Support, Universal Health Care

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Source: www.goodreads.com

topic: America, Long, Care, Universal Health Care

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

- Jack Layton

topic: Moving Forward, Justice, Care, Universal Health Care

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

- Paul Harvey

topic: Gun, Care, Want, Universal Health Care

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

topic: Drug, Care, Vengeance, Drug Companies, Universal Health Care

Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: Source: www.finalcall.com

topic: People, Challenges, Education For All, Universal Education, Universal Health Care

I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama's former doctor critical of White House health care plan" by Jim Acosta, edition.cnn.com. July 30, 2009.

topic: Care, Plans, Universal, Universal Health Care

I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

topic: Strong, Jobs, Thinking, Strong Economy, Universal Health Care

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.

- John Lewis

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Moving, People, Drug, Affordable Care Act, Universal Health Care

We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, Unique, People, Universal Health Care

I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.

- James Lawson

topic: Home, School, Soldier, Affordable Housing, School Buildings

In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.

- Joan Walsh Anglund

topic: Country, Race, Ethnicity, Race And Ethnicity, Universal Health Care

I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare, Wish America had universal health care... Cause ain't no help here.

- Ed O.G.

topic: Christian, Rap, America, Universal Health Care

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.

- Kevin Drum

topic: Wall, Couple, Fighting, Income Inequality, Universal Health Care

Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Views, Should Have, Universal Health Care

If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

- Michael Lind

topic: Education, Jobs, Health, Bargaining, Free Education

Let me tell you something, the end game, Paul, for Congress and this president - and I don't know how many members of Congress even realize the game that they are either being used in or a pawn in. But believe me, they'll take the universal health care coverage over what skin they do have in it. They're going to come out - this system is going to come out the other side dictorial [sic] - it is going to come out a fascist state.

- Glenn Beck

source: "The Glenn Beck Program", July 27, 2009.

topic: Believe, Games, Skins, Universal Health Care

Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy...

- Barack Obama

topic: Winning, Technology, Government, Broadband, Universal Health Care

Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!

- Andre Vltchek

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Country, Block, Latin, Universal Health Care

I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

- Russ Feingold

source: Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

topic: Thinking, Agreement, Would Be, Nafta, Universal Health Care

Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic conditions.

- Gregory S. Paul

topic: Religious, Population, Care, Economic Security, Universal Health Care