Rick Scott Quotes

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

We've got a thousand lobbyists in thousand dollar suits giving you a thousand reasons we can't change.

If we're going to tackle the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, along with so many other issues that are at the top of our community's mind, we need to reform our system and make it work for the people, not special interests and corporations.

Championing quality improvement and value in the health care system is a passion of mine, and I'm able to bring about change through private equity activities.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

There is no question in my mind that the health care system has to work.

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In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what?

I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.

It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'

Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.

[Donald Trump] said that even though he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare, he might want to preserve some parts.

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

Let's look at what Donald Trump is now [in November 2016] saying. He's saying he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare. He is also saying maybe that if you have a pre-existing condition, you'll be able to buy insurance.

People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.

I think the first thing is to recognize a mistake that Obama made. And others have made in thinking that you can revolutionize a system that's unbelievably complex and interlinked, one-sixth of the economy. That was a mistake because whenever you change one thing, it changes 80 other things, and now if you're changing everything at once, you have no idea what the outcome is going to be and you get all of these unintended side effects.

Hillary Clinton wants to double-down on Obamacare and make it even worse.

Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.