Doctor Oz

The systems that I like the most are actually the kind of systems they have in Germany or Switzerland, where they actually afford patients the opportunity to, to get insurance from many different companies, but they have to buy one type of insurance or another. You know, so we don't have the option as consumers to not have coverage, but the government has the obligation [ to ] and so do es [ sic ] the insurance companies providing coverage to us. I think we can make this happen in America.

It should be mandatory that everybody in America have healthcare coverage. If you can't afford it, we have to give it to you.

There have been times when I have been tempted to break my Hippocratic oath, to put my patient first, because although I could save their life, they didn't have the ability to reimburse whoever had to pay for it. And what happens then is that the system goes bankrupt. You can't afford those services anymore. We can't have people who have given their life to healthcare being pulled in two directions because one party says you can't help that person. They're not in the system.

That's a good starting point for any candidate. You should -- if you're under 18 years of age in this country -- you should have insurance. Period. No questions. All you need is a birth certificate to prove that you're less than 18 years of age ; it ought to be done.