Health Care Costs Quotes

• Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Decision, Cost

  George W. Bush ate the third Presidential Debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.

  Howard Schultz

  Long, People, Cost

  "Bartiromo: Starbucks' Schultz eyes global growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. September 15, 2013.

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• The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

  Jim Ryun

  Majority, Cost, Rising

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• The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

  Neal Boortz

  Doctors, Government, Cost

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• We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Health, Cities, Cost

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• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  Abraham Verghese

  Blessed, Thinking, America

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Thinking, Goal

  "Interviews with Speaker Pelosi & Sen. Alexander". "This Week" with Jose Antonio Vargas, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• 13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

  Frank Oski

  Pregnancy, Years, Care

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• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Goal, Progress

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• The cost of health care and the cost of cars and fuel are huge burdens on families and businesses. We can reduce health care costs NOW by promoting biking, walking and transit.

  Steve Novick

  Car, Cost, Fuel

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• We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Needs, Cost

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• As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

  Diana DeGette

  Cost, Care, Driving

  "Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition" by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

  Russ Carnahan

  Strong, Technology, Years

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• By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

  John Cornyn

  Administration, Would Be, Cost

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Cancer, Heart

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• Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

  Ron Wyden

  America, Broken, Silence

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• America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

  Richard Lamm

  Doctors, Practice, Medicine

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• We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

  Jim Renacci

  Government, Energy, Needs

  "Battle ‘10". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Elderly, Cost, Care

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• I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Believe, Cutting, Medicine

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• The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Obamacare, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  Carole Keeton

  Law, Government, Care

  "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Risk, Age

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