Health Quotes by Barack Obama

It was families who were worried about going bankrupt if they got sick.

— Barack Obama

If you like your existing plan you get to keep it

— Barack Obama

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

— Barack Obama

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

— Barack Obama

We're not going to have you burdening the health system.

— Barack Obama

Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment.

— Barack Obama

The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

— Barack Obama

Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

— Barack Obama

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin.

— Barack Obama

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining…

— Barack Obama

When you move to a voucher system, you are putting seniors at the mercy of insurance companies.

— Barack Obama

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

— Barack Obama

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

— Barack Obama

In the past yearabout 10 million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage.

— Barack Obama

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

— Barack Obama

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

— Barack Obama

Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has…

— Barack Obama

Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only…

— Barack Obama

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every…

— Barack Obama

If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by…

— Barack Obama

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the…

— Barack Obama

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part…

— Barack Obama

If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a…

— Barack Obama

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security…

— Barack Obama

What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did…

— Barack Obama

We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get…

— Barack Obama

I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead…

— Barack Obama

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some…

— Barack Obama

Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see…

— Barack Obama

We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although…

— Barack Obama

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right…

— Barack Obama

I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect…

— Barack Obama

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.

— Barack Obama

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper,…

— Barack Obama

Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much…

— Barack Obama

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

— Barack Obama

In the past year alone, about 10 million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage.

— Barack Obama

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

— Barack Obama

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

— Barack Obama

I will not let this Congress endanger the health of our children by turning back our efforts.

— Barack Obama