Charles Boustany Quotes

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

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

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.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

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

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

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.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

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

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

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.

The right path to health-care reform is the market path (no subsidies, no monopolies such as drug patents, no licensure, no anything) that tends toward universal distribution at very low prices and relentless improvement in service.

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution.