Quotes About Government Healthcare

#1. History has repeatedly shown that the costs of many government healthcare programs far exceed early projections.

Rick Scott

#2. There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

Estelle Morris

#3. If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

Christina Romer

#4. Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

Michael Moore

#5. Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.

A.E. Samaan

#6. To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I'm sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.

Andrew Dominik

#7. The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#8. Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.

Joni Ernst

#9. Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

Saul Landau

#10. Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization's improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

Alan G. Robinson

#11. Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.

Bill Maher

#12. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

#13. If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Charley Pride

#14. Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Frank Herbert

#15. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

#16. The story of their marriage. Bits of time stolen between lives apart.

Alessandra Torre

#17. Ye're na meant for a tepid existence, so maybe 'tis time ta leave da sandbox.
Brennus

Amy A. Bartol

#18. If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

John Templeton

#19. The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

Marc Koska

#20. Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. "Free" counseling. "Free" healthcare. "Free" employment services. "Free" food. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.

Ken Wheaton

#21. The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

Thomas Vilsack

#22. We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up.

Mark Zandi

#23. The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.

Pete Sessions

#24. Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Twyla Tharp

#25. When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

Alexandra Robbins

#26. I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

John Stossel

#27. I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

Peter Diamandis

#28. I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

Chester Brown

#29. The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Mitt Romney

#30. I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

Bill Gates

#31. Not again, Draper," Frank sighed. "You're not going to stop us from crossing. You and I know that the one thing the Government does even more poorly than provide healthcare is secure its borders.

Randy Quarles

#32. I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

John F. Kerry

#33. President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

Conan O'Brien

#34. I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

Wendy E. Long

#35. The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Mitt Romney

#36. The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Lindsey Graham