Barack Obama Quotes About Health Care

• I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Years, Law

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, Care, Like You

  "Real battle over health care reform about to begin" by Jim Acosta, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2009.

• And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Doctors, Keeping Promises

• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Choices, Competition

  "VIDEO: Obama's gaffe" by Amie Parnes, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Law, Land

  "CNN Student News" with Carl Azuz, edition.cnn.com. March 24, 2010.

• We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, College, Class

• Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

  Barack Obama

  People, Citizens, Done

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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

  Barack Obama

  Country, Independent, Fighting

• You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Cheer, Gay, Iraq

  Remarks by the President at DNC Event in San Jose, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 26, 2011.

• Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Technology, Government

• For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Technology, Bridges

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• ... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

  Barack Obama

  Care, Way, Months

  Transcript of President Obama's news conference, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2013.

• The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Average, Years

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

• And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Challenges

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Goal, Progress

• 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

• For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, Two

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.317, Canongate Books

• That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Home

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, Care, Able

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

• I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Battle, Care

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Pockets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Mother, Get Well

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