Unsustainable Costs Quotes

One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

There is a yawning discrepancy of what Americans expect and for what they are willing to pay.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Under Obamacare, rates are skyrocketing, and insurers are leaving the marketplace.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.

The fountains of Learning & Religion are so corrupted as (besides the unsupportable charge of there education) most children (even the best wits & of fairest hopes) are perverted, corrupted, & utterly overthrowne by the multitude of evil examples & the licentious government of those seminaries, where men straine at gnats & swallows camels

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.

There is an enormous consensus about the disaster that Obamacare has been.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

The people that are getting killed in this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies. Why? Because they’re not organized. They don’t have any bargaining power with insurance companies. And they’re getting whacked. So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world.

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.