Jeremy Hunt Quotes

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

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.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

Sustainability is a very tough thing in our government because there are so many different competing priorities.

Not all spending initiatives were designed to be immortal.

You do not have to cut finds from the elderly sick and still keep the yacht subsidy;

Reducing future risks requires paying some immediate costs.

How do we crate a quality health care system that is universal?

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.

I took for granted that we have free healthcare. But I have realised what the NHS does, and the people within it who keep it moving, the number of hours they are doing.

I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking.

It's so important that people know there was a time before the NHS. It makes them appreciate it more.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.