With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.
For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.
[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.
I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.
If your grocery store owner provided your health care plan, I can guarantee you that it would be cheaper for him and inconvenient for you.
We have a plan and it's been put out on my website and people love it. If you're going to have a wait of six days, five days, two days, one day, we're going to give our great veterans the right to go out, go across the street to a private doctor or a private hospital or a public hospital, whatever happens to be in that community, without having to drive 400 miles to another hospital.
I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
What's happened [in UK] is a private medical practice has started up, people who can afford it are going to into medical institutions, hospitals and so forth, that are not part of the National Health Service, they've opted out.
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.
Yes, it’s free enterprise. But I don’t think that most constituents understand that their health care is being weakened so a few people can make a lot of money.
Referring to practices of some HMO’s:
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest and individual responsibility. They shouldn't be paying for anybody else's health care or anything else like that. As a result, government is something that should be absolutely minimal. It's not there for your overall protection and empowerment - it's not there to offer protection against disease or natural disasters or bad products or companies who sell you fallacious mortgages and so on.
Given that GPs are essentially a private part of our health care system, providing services independently of the rest of the health service, NHS England is supposed to take a strategic approach to co-ordinating GP practices.
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.
Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?
A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA.
If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.’
Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.
The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.
