Rob Portman Quotes

In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

It is inevitable that we are going to have to ration health care in the United States.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton want government to run your health care. My dad believes that you and your doctor should decide your health care.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

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.

We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

I do not support a single-payer system; I do support having something there, whether it's an option or not. And we can work with that, but we have to have something to leverage so we can get the insurance company to bring down their prices, and the only way to do that is to have an alternative there.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

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.