Amy Klobuchar Quotes

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

As a member of Congress, I participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program under the same rules as millions of other federal employees.

I would love to see public option. If we had public option, then people would have that ability to supplement that public option with an additional health plan.

I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market.

The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

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

America doesn't have health insurance.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

I believe in health care reform.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

The Republican Health Care Plan is 'Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’

We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.

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.

Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's version.

Obamacare does not allow patients to buy insurance across state lines, which would dramatically increase competition and lower costs. It does not allow small business-associated health plans. It limits low-cost health savings accounts options.

At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to everyone. Modeled on Medicare, this 'public option' will soon become the single dominant health plan, which is its political purpose. It will restructure the practice of medicine in the process.

One person uninsured is one person too many.

I leave Medicare alone. I create a new system for everyone under 65 where they get health care as a right. It's a basic plan. We roll Medicaid into that, but then we allow people to have choices and get private insurance to supplement that basic government plan.

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

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.