Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

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.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I believe health care is a civil right.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

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

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

In America, health care must be a right and not a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

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

We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.