Quotes of: Health-care-costs Keyword

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Robert M. Gates

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

Charlie Norwood

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting ...

Atul Gawande

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Temple Grandin

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Michael Bloomberg

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

Gary Miller

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

Michael K. Simpson

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Diana DeGette

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

Andrew P. Harris

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

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care cos...

Dave Brat

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

Steven Burd

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Diana DeGette

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care c...

Doug Elmendorf

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

Martha Plimpton

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Peter Shumlin

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

Matthew Lesko

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

John Kitzhaber

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

Lindsey Graham

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Ric Keller