Ron Williams Quotes

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

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.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

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

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.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

We will have health care reform in America.

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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

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.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

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

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.