#health care

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#costs #coverage #erode #families #health

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. ↗

— John Salazar

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Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#define #different #everyone #health #health care

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

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My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#assembly line #better #california #care #father

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. ↗

— Mark Steyn

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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. ↗

— Bart Stupak

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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#because #business #business people #buy #came

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

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We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#affordable #aid program #care #centers #community