Tom Price Quotes

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

… a system of national health insurance so that a worker can afford decent health care for himself and his family.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

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

I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

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.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.