Health Care Cost Quotes
This quotation is an example of a tautology—a statement that simply repeats itself using different words. Critics of the George W. Bush administration turn to this and other quotations to illustrate the shallowness of the key leaders. The statement provides no knowledge and is self evident to most people. And this came from the most sophisticated budget official of the administration.
His logic conflates the right of an individual to health care with the right of the healthcare provider in a zero sum game. Voting is a right, but that does not imply that the voting machine maker must supply them for free. The obligation of the state is to provide for and facilitate rights—to either provide the health care directly or pay a provider to provide it.