Sharice Davids Quotes

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.

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

I want to drive down health care costs.

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

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

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

The small businesses that I've talked to have consistently said that the cost of health care is one of the things that they need the most help with.

Obamacare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance.

What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.

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

President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn't happening.

Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

It's critical that we lower the cost of prescription drugs and develop a health care plan that works for all Americans.

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.

I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

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

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.