Ben Carson Quotes

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

I want to drive down health care costs.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

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

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

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

Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had.

Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.

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

If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.

The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

As consumers are being asked to pay more of the cost of healthcare services, they will increasingly demand more value and will also ask for more transparency and tools to determine the value they are receiving.

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.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Health-care policy is choked by an aristocracy of special interests. If we don't take these groups on and rein in costs, health care will continue to bleed our economy white.

The average man with a need for an operation cannot afford a first class hospital …My medical pills run $400 to $500 a month and hell, I feel pretty good … Costs must be tempered..

Early consolidation of hospitals was for efficiency to reduce costs. However in local market's consolidations have become monopolies and have increased costs.

Many people who have insurance can't even use it because they have $10,000 or higher deductibles. This is something families are facing all across the nation. They've asked for relief; this was front and center on President Trump's agenda and our agenda in Congress, and we're moving forward on it.

I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.

Under Obamacare - which placed 159 federal agencies, commissions, and bureaucracies between patients and doctors - patients not only face dramatically higher health care costs, they've also lost the power to choose the options right for them.

For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.