Heather Bresch Quotes

When prices are transparent and competition is encouraged, consumers win. We believe that can prove true in health care as it has in every other area of the American economy.

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.

Free markets work better when information is available.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

When insurance covers everything, no one cares what the their health costs are. Consumers must have some skin in the game.

there are times when we need to step in to make sure that competition works the way it should. By doing that, we help the market to work fairly, because competition gives consumers the power to demand a fair deal. It means that companies know that if they cannot offer good prices or the service that's expected, well, the customers will go somewhere else.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

Competition's a good thing.

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

Armed with pricing information, health care consumers can punish providers that price gouge, waste resources, or engage in surprise billing by taking their business elsewhere.

Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

Markets are really people.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

We should rely on the markets to move on their own.

A man may not sell above the current price, i.e., such a price as is usual in the time and place, and as another (who knows the worth of the commodity) would give for it When a man loseth in his commodity for want of skill, etc., he must look at it as his own fault or cross, and therefore must not lay it upon another

The dictates of economics, that "dismal science," limit the benefits of medical science

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.