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Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive. -- Robert M. Gates
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. -- Tom Allen
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. -- Michael Bloomberg
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. -- John Baldacci
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
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. -- Temple Grandin
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. -- Mitch Kapor
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
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
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
I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs. -- Steven Burd
There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it. -- Charlie Norwood
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures. -- David Suzuki
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
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
People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs. -- Clayton Christensen
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. -- Doug Elmendorf
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
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
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them. -- Atul Gawande
We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. -- Richard Lamm
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
If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy. -- Dave Brat
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
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
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
I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. -- Jack Whittaker
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. -- Ric Keller
By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care -- George W. Bush
All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs. -- Barack Obama
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. -- Martha Plimpton
Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing. -- Donald Trump
The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government. -- Neal Boortz
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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
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance. -- Bill Dedman
Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. -- Jim McCrery
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care. -- Eric Cantor
If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce. -- Johann Lamont
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs -- Gary Miller
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences. -- Steven Levitt
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs. -- Gary Miller
Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees. -- Ron Wyden
It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself. -- Bill Munson
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
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. -- Fred Upton
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. -- Paul Ryan
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. -- Joe Baca
Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars. -- Barack Obama
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
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses. -- Peter Drucker
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
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress. -- Virginia Postrel
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

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