Frans van Houten Quotes

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

… a system of national health insurance so that a worker can afford decent health care for himself and his family.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

Obamacare is making the market for health care less competitive.

Obamacare does not allow patients to buy insurance across state lines, which would dramatically increase competition and lower costs. It does not allow small business-associated health plans. It limits low-cost health savings accounts options.

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers.

I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.