Barack Obama Quotes About Health

• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Ruins

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

• Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Decision, Should

  Barack Obama's speech on Preventive Care, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 10, 2012.

• But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

  Barack Obama

  Health, People, Cost

• 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

  Mean, Health, Politics

  "Obama: No 'sugarcoating' problems with health website" by Matt Smith and Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 21, 2013.

• A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Quality, Needs

  Barack Obama's remarks Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at the South Court Auditorium in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 25, 2015.

• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Health, Recovery

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