Jeff Merkley
Related JIM RYUN BOB BECKEL Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care pr... GEORGE JOHNSON The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have hea... GEORGE J. MITCHELL The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health ca... SUSAN ESTRICH BERNIE SANDERS Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn'... GIORGIO MORODER BILL VAUGHAN Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care o... DAVID LEVERING LEWIS It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wo... HEIDI MURKOFF Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs the... PAUL ZANE PILZER ABRAHAM VERGHESE We see many people taking control of their health care costs by moving to an HSA-eligible health ins... GARY LAUER While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every Ameri... RON WYDEN Health care already costs too much. Unfortunately, the bill proposed by Senator Kennedy and many of ... DON NICKLES If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point... DICK DURBIN JUDY BIGGERT Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. JAMES DOUGLAS PAUL RYAN Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance ind... SANDER LEVIN JAMES HILLMAN I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democra... TOM VILSACK When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract... TAMMY BRUCE And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who ar... JUAN WILLIAMS BILL VAUGHAN The problem with the health care system is that health insurance is unaffordable or unavailable. It'... ANTHONY WRIGHT VIRGINIA POSTREL And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will gover... ARTUR DAVIS JEFF MERKLEY Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergen... BARBARA ANN RADNOFSKY JOHN EDWARDS Unfortunately, we have a growing shortage of psychiatrists, and many people find that their health i... DR. MARVIN SWARTZ I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care tod... DAVID AXELROD CHANNING TATUM VIKRAM PATEL HOWARD SCHULTZ The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating b... BENJAMIN BOOKER And we have 45 million uninsured Americans. We have seven million Californians without health insura... BOB ROSS BEN NELSON ERIC TOPOL In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health... STEVEN BURD Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially li... MICHAEL CRAPO MICHELLE OBAMA DENIS MCDONOUGH My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less pe... TIM WALBERG They go into our emergency rooms because they don't have health insurance so they don't have primary... STEVEN BERMAN When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because... P. J. O'ROURKE We can't wait for universal health care any longer, not while we see uninsured people continue to di... BARBARA SPAR Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem... ATUL GAWANDE I think the average American has a better idea how to manage their health care costs, to make better... JEFF KOCH Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one ... ANDREW P. HARRIS People need to be better shoppers for health care because more of their health care costs will be pa... MARIBETH SHANNON JESSE JACKSON JACK MCBRAYER Wisconsin Democrats are focused on making life more affordable for our middle-class families, so the... JOE WINEKE TEMPLE GRANDIN CAITLYN SIEHL BOBBY JINDAL ANTHONY WEINER TOMMY LASORDA If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire syst... HEATHER BROOKE FELIX DENNIS America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford ... BILL FRIST Most small businesses have dropped health care or modified it so employees are responsible for 100 p... CHARLES WEASEL JESSE VENTURA BLANCHE LINCOLN The lack of health insurance coverage will keep many people from retiring before they reach age 65. ALAN GARBER JOHN BARRASSO It's bad enough to have to come to work and stress out over heavy work loads without going home to s... ANGELA GREEN JAN SCHAKOWSKY JENNIFER GRANHOLM Americans assume they will receive lifesaving emergency care when and where they need it, but increa... DR. FREDERICK BLUM SETH MACFARLANE RICHARD CARMONA ROBERT REICH JIMMY JOHNSON ALLYSON SCHWARTZ If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mort... BILL FLORES We have seen strong interest in these plans within the past year, and believe it is important to bro... LAURIE BRUBAKER JAMES CORDEN Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o... WENDY DAVIS AKIO TOYODA ROB PORTMAN MIKE LEAVITT This poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum value the role Medicaid plays in our he... DIANE ROWLAND The distinction between uninsured and insured isn't as simple as it used to be. When we look at peop... CAROL PRYOR This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is... BETTY CARTER DAVID LEE ROTH And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. DICK WOLF Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how th... JOHN QUELCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH We found out in the last couple years that there are a shortage of physicians able to take new Medic... BARBARA GIBSON For many consumers, understanding insurance and determining what kind of coverage they need to prote... ALESSANDRO IUPPA THOMAS FRANK THOMAS R. INSEL I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a p... GENESIS RODRIGUEZ Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren... TIMOTHY GRIFFIN We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or... JUDD GREGG GAIL COLLINS The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions ... STEVEN RATTNER
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The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising... 
High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insuran... 
Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or d... 
Tax deductions do little or nothing for those people who are uninsured and devastated by high health... 
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ... 
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, t... 
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo... 
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, an... 
Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don&#... 
We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed ca... 
We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people o... 
Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a n... 
Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There,... 
Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don'... 
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or becom... 
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to impro... 
Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge a... 
In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get heal... 
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy... 
One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read '... 
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l... 
It ends or it doesn't.
If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than on... 
What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the p... 
I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pu... 
You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care... 
What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senator... 
Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or mak... 
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspec... 
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care ... 
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not b... 
Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to re... 
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy... 
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or p... 
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends t... 
I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all American... 
The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room sayi... 
Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the w... 
The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits heal... 
There are too many Americans that are without basic health insurance. And those that do have it are ... 
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a ya... 
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by any... 
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity... 
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health c... 
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ... 
I do believe we have voter fraud in America. 
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. 
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve... 
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is... 
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Bein... 
Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it? 
The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now. 
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han... 
Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ... 
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse... 
I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh... 
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav... 
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am... 
I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w... 
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much. 
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem... 
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ... 
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we... 
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun... 
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ... 
I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea... 
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti... 
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th... 
You can't do everything but you can do something! 
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. 
Two monologues do not make a dialogue. 
Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires. 
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw... 
Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless... 
The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. 
What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ... 
Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m... 
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. 
When a heart breaks
it also opens
-Jeff Arch- screenwriter. 
Two monologues do not make a dialogue. 
You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out ... 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'... 
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homelan... 
I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see... 
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's... 
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I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment pla... 
Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fa... 
Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there... 
I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the righ... 
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Is that why you're crying?"