“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.” IfsThinkingKindStoriesProblemCareAmericaCostSafetyBlessedAccessReformHealth CareSafety NetHealth Care Costs Author:Abraham Verghese
“We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?” Would BeCostAgreeStartingReformHealthcareStarting OverReformationStarting Point Author:Newt Gingrich
“Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.” KnowsJobsCausesSupportCostReformReservesSenatorsInflationCongressmanFederal ReserveDrastic Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.” IfsCountryAbleCostHandleReformHealthcareEscalating Author:Barack Obama
“We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.” ThinkingNeedsRealAmericaFacesMilitaryCostMajorsWeaponsCrisisDollarsSpendingNuclearBillionsReformNuclear WeaponsMaintaining Author:Bernie Sanders
“One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.” GoalCostMajorsReformReformation Author:Valerie Jarrett
“[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.” GovernmentCarePlansPromiseCostTaxesSellsDebtReformBarackHealth CareVotersCoverageHealth Care ReformAmerican Voters Author:Charles Krauthammer
“What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.” WayTryingEndsCareNeededCostReformHealth CareTaxpayersMedicarePublic HealthHealth Care ReformMedicaid Author:Hillary Clinton
“The president-elect [Donald Trump] has set a very aggressive agenda, and I think that repealing and replacing Obamacare with the kind of health care reform that'll lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government will be job one.” ThinkingKindGovernmentCareJobsPresidentGrowingTrumpCostSizeReformHealth CareAgendasAggressiveObamacareHealth Care ReformRepealingSize Of Government Author:Mike Pence
“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.” ThinkingSoundLossPoorMagicCostBenefitsInnovationImpactDollarsMedicineIncludingCurrentsBurdenBillionsImprovementReformFundMechanismEfficientAvoidingWeight LossReducingInnovatorsAffluentPharmaceutical Author:Thomas Pogge
“I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.” TryingCarePresidentCostMedicalWelcomeReformHealth CareMalpractice Author:Ben Quayle
“The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.” WayRealGoalQualityCostUniversalReformHealthcareCoverageHigh QualityHealthcare Reform Author:Bernie Sanders
“If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.” IfsWayCareGoalHonestCostApproachUniversalReformHealth CareComprehensiveHealth Care ReformUniversal Health Care Author:Bernie Sanders