Tim Walberg Quotes

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

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

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

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

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

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

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

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

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.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

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

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

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

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

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

The goal should be universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care.

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.

In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what?

Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.