Quotes About Socialized Medicine

#1. Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#2. [The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

Tony Snow

#3. The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

A.E. Samaan

#4. At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.

Ted Cruz

#5. With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

James Cook

#6. Not from my point of view ... [Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

Rudy Giuliani

#7. [The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.

Pete Sessions

#8. The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

Mitt Romney

#9. It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

Monica Crowley

#10. The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Frank Chodorov

#11. At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

Matt Gonzalez

#12. I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Amanda Peet

#13. Once apon a time, Ian's dark, dreamy eyes had made her melt inside. The angle of his head, the wrinkle in the left corner of his lip - they'd obsessed her. And he'd been obsessed right back. Now all Amy wanted to do was throw her shoe at the screen.

Peter Lerangis

#14. It's all fun and games until somebody dies. -Brian Sheahan "Trauma Junkie

Tom Hobbs

#15. It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

Rush Limbaugh

#16. [I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

Phyllis Schlafly

#17. If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.

A.E. Samaan

#18. It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

Leslie Ford

#19. Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

Anna Quindlen

#20. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

A.E. Samaan

#21. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.

A.E. Samaan

#22. Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.

Jim DeMint

#23. Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Louie Gohmert

#24. I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it ... This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism ... It's unconstitutional.

Michele Bachmann

#25. We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

James B. Utt

#26. Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

Rush Limbaugh

#27. Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

Ron Paul

#28. Koko B. Ware ... his mom's first name was Tupper.

Bobby Heenan

#29. If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

Michele Bachmann

#30. The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.

Jack Kingston

#31. If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

Bill Maher

#32. Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Frederick Lenz

#33. They think we are retarded. They are retarded.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf