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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. -- Joichi Ito
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. -- William J. H. Boetcker
As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. -- Donald Trump
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer. -- Bernie Sanders
Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. -- Peter Shumlin
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. -- Ari Fleischer
I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer. -- Dennis Kucinich
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants. -- Henry B. Eyring
A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer. -- Jeffrey Bernard
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care. -- Dennis Kucinich
I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan -- Barack Obama
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. -- Bernie Sanders
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around. -- Cynthia Dill
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. -- Abraham Lincoln
I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have. -- Bernie Sanders
If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach. -- Bernie Sanders
She [Hillary Clinton] wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster...she wants to go to single-payer, which means the government basically rules everything. -- Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true. -- Barack Obama
[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. -- Phyllis Schlafly
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. -- Charles Krauthammer
The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with a single-payer system, a public program that guarantees everyone coverage. -- Kshama Sawant
I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. -- Hillary Clinton
I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America. -- Peter Shumlin
If you look at countries that are comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they have mixed systems. They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have very clear controls over budgeting and accountability. -- Hillary Clinton

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