Steve Scalise Quotes

I want to drive down health care costs.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

We're going to do things that are going to make this country better and reduce the cost of health care.

I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

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.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

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

I believe in health care reform.

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

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

No one wants to go back to the time when insurance companies decided who would get health care.

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

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

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

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

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

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.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

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

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.