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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
Shirley Chisholm
'Well-being is an inalienable entitlement, not a commodity to be acquired.'
2.
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
C. Everett Koop
3.
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
John Lewis
4.
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor
5.
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.
Donald Trump
7.
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard
8.
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
Donald Berwick
9.
Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.
Joseph Bernardin
10.
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
George Soros
11.
I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
Henry Paulson
13.
Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.
Bernie Sanders
15.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
16.
Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.
Rush Limbaugh
17.
ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator.
Greg Gutfeld
18.
If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.
Mitt Romney
20.
Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.
Uwe Reinhardt
21.
If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.
Swanee Hunt
22.
We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!
Bill Maher
23.
America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
Don King
24.
On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
26.
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
Ed Pastor
28.
Obamacare is a disaster. It's too expensive. It's horrible health care. It doesn't cover what you have to cover. It's a disaster.
Donald Trump
29.
The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.
Hillary Clinton
30.
I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
Jill Stein
31.
I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
Andrew Weil
32.
One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.
George W. Bush
33.
The health care is going to be less money, and we're going to have much better health care.
Donald Trump
34.
We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.
Hillary Clinton
35.
Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.
Jim Jordan
36.
In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?
Elif Batuman
37.
Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."
Angela Braly
39.
We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.
Michael Bloomberg
40.
Before Obamacare you had a lot of people that were very, very happy with their health care. And now those people in many cases don't even have health care. They don't even have anything that's acceptable to them.
Donald Trump
41.
America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
Elliott Abrams
42.
The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.
Barack Obama
43.
If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.
Bernie Sanders
45.
Hillary Clinton wants to keep Obamacare and she wants to make it even worse, and it can't get any worse. Bad health care at the most expensive price. We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Donald Trump
46.
Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.
Noam Chomsky
48.
ObamaCare is a massive budget buster, that it is creating massive deficits in the future. And I really believe it's going to destroy the health care plan, the health care system in America.
Paul Ryan
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I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.
Laurence Kotlikoff