Cal Cunningham Quotes

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

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.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

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

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

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.

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

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

I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.