Jeff Van Drew Quotes

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare - but also becoming a healthier population.

We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.

The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

It is not only a moral imperative that we cover everybody (with insured heath care), it has become an economic necessity.

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs.

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

Our goal is to make sure that everyone in this country has access to affordable healthcare, including people with pre-existing conditions. So they can access affordable coverage. That is not what you have with Obamacare.