Single Payer Quotes

#1. I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Peter Shumlin

#2. We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

Bernie Sanders

#3. I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

Hillary Clinton

#4. Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Bernie Sanders

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

Peter Shumlin

#6. As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

Donald Trump

#7. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

#8. 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

#9. If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Charles Krauthammer

#10. I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

Bernie Sanders

#11. If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Bernie Sanders

#12. I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

Cynthia Dill

#13. I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

Bernie Sanders

#14. [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

#15. 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.

Dennis Kucinich

#16. I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan

Barack Obama

#17. As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Bernie Sanders

#18. I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Jello Biafra

#19. What is genius or courage without a heart?

Oliver Goldsmith

#20. Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment

Chris Prentiss

#21. Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

Madeleine L'Engle

#22. 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

#23. Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Mos Def

#24. People with autism react physically to feelings of happiness and sadness. So when something happens that affects me emotionally, my body seizes up as if struck by lightning.

Naoki Higashida