Asa Hutchinson Quotes

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

By redesigning our health care system, we are participating in one of the greatest social experiments in American history.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

No matter where I go, the number one concern I hear from Mainers is health care.

Health care is one of the top kitchen table issues in Nevada.

One issue that affects every American is health care.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

A majority of Americans think Obamacare will make health care in our country worse, and they're right.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

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

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

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 can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.