Harold S. Koplewicz Quotes

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

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

I have voted to repeal the president's health care law and will continue to advocate for its repeal. Additionally, I will push for critical reforms that focus on controlling costs and empowering patients within the health care system.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

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

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

We will have health care reform in America.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

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.

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.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

There's no way we're going to have low cost health insurance in a world of high cost medicine.

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

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

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

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

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

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.

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.

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.