Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it.