Lamar Alexander Quotes

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

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.

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, it should not authorize a reform plan that would further our financial woes. We must avoid creating an unsustainable government program. There is no question that reform is needed, but health care can be made more affordable without massive and expensive new bureaucracies.

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

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

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

Keeping America competitive requires affordable health care.

By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

If we're going to be able to provide access to quality, affordable health care to every American - we need to have the trained health care professionals inside hospitals to provide that care.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

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

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.