I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.
No woman has an abortion for fun.
Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton want government to run your health care. My dad believes that you and your doctor should decide your health care.
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.
Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.
In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.
I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
If a doctor tells me, 'Hey, that's it, and this is how it is,' and I don't buy that, then I think I have the right to disagree with you.
For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.
