Mike McCready Quotes

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

The one unifying principle of Republicans is to make sure that 30 million people don’t have health care.

No one wants to go back to the time when insurance companies decided who would get health care.

Do you really want to pay for surgeon’s salaries by not having low-income people not be able to afford health insurance?

If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make.

When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.

Universal health coverage is an ambitious goal, but it is one that can create a healthier and more equitable world for all people. It means a child reaches adulthood, and adults lead healthier lives regardless of who they are and where they live.

Whether it's a mom worrying about affording insulin for her children or a cancer patient fearing bankruptcy due the price of his life-saving medications, the number one issue Kansans talk to me about is the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'

Expanding health coverage is not a technical issue but a political one; it should be seen as a right and a means to development.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

Trump makes really, really powerful arguments, for example in relation to healthcare. He talks about the cartels and the concentration of power and the health insurance companies effectively having monopolies and ripping people off.

Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.

I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don't see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage - that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.

Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.