Beats Quote by Ron Wyden

For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry…

— Joe Sestak

A lot of politicians talked about giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices, which will help millions of Americans. Not a single…

— Neera Tanden

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

— Bennie Thompson

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

— Joshua Kushner

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What…

— Paul Ryan

As Speaker, I passed protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions to prevent insurance companies from denying them coverage - that's the kind of leadership…

— Sara Gideon

When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's…

— Hillary Clinton

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts…

— Roy Blunt

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford…

— Sander Levin

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now,…

— Bart Stupak

John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan…

— Barack Obama

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

— Jim McGovern