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Health care Quotes by Barack Obama

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Millions of Americans are happy with their health coverage, and Barack Obama says the nation has finally turned health care reform into law. He notes that his plan aims to lower premiums for those with coverage and to extend similar protection to the uninsured. He also points out the political challenges that remain.

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

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

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

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

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

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Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed…

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

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If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind…

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

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

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We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in…

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If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can…

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We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

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You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people…

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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists…

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What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you…

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For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we…

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The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make…

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The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50…

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And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you…

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This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is,…

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In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our…

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

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

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

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For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And…

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That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of…

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A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also…

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For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an…

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“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of…

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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet…

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I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it…

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The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

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“We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.”

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Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I…

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We won't grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling.

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We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women

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You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in…

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The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost…

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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy,…

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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…