Healthcare Market Quotes

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

Clear prices force health care providers and insurers to lower their rates to attract customers - like their counterparts in the rest of the economy.

The idea of strengthening health savings accounts... that bolsters the marketplace.

Obamacare is making the market for health care less competitive.

We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.

Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.

I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.

If the private insurance market can survive in a context of a public option, good for them. But if they can't, then that will tell you something about the nature of the market.

Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.