Angela Braly Quotes

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

It's clear that health care is a concern for people all across the country regardless of their political stripe or where they live.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

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

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

Our health system is broken.

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

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

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

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.

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

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.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find 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.