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DIANNE KIEHL![]()
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising...
JIM RYUN![]()
The governor believes that people should pay a part of their own costs when accessing health care se...
DAVID LEHMAN I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for p...
DANA GOLDMAN![]()
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND![]()
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol...
BERNIE SANDERS Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We...
CHRIS HOLT Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red ta...
JOHN SHADEGG![]()
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and ...
DAVID SUZUKI We believe Bridges to Excellence will raise the quality of care for our members and State Health Pla...
BOB GRECZYN Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed...
JACKIE SPEIER Neither side, and I have said this all along, wants to go through the horror of revisiting this issu...
GEORGE PARNHAM There are ways to get noticed and ways to be taken seriously that would be beneficial to Iowans, as ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN Most small businesses have dropped health care or modified it so employees are responsible for 100 p...
CHARLES WEASEL Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES fully fund children's health care coverage.
MIKE MOORE This poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum value the role Medicaid plays in our he...
DIANE ROWLAND I want to drive down health care costs.
CHRIS GIBSON First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
JOHN KITZHABER![]()
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo...
PAUL RYAN With health care costs increasing by double digits in the last few years, employers are desperate to...
LINDA CUSHMAN We're calling on the Legislature to quickly pass the health care reform proposal now pending at the ...
LIZ JACKSON Over 85 percent of all health plans' costs are governed by provider contracts. Without Guardian, hea...
MALCOLM COSTELLO The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as...
PAUL GILLMOR![]()
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt ...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG![]()
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are ful...
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND Corruption in health care costs more than money. The price of corruption health care is paid in huma...
HUGUETTE LABELLE The vote expands health care for workers, stops large, profitable companies from shifting their heal...
PAUL BLANK (Hatch) really views health plans as playing a very narrow role. We have an eye towards the long-ter...
COLLEEN REITAN![]()
Depression and psychological distress are key motivating factors, ... We need a better system of tak...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL![]()
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it is free.
P.J. O’ROURKE As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompe...
DIANA DEGETTE A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
PATRICIA HEWITT![]()
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they c...
JEFF MERKLEY![]()
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ...
MIKE ROUNDS![]()
Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don'...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Texas has a very strong health care system. Physicians are doing a wonderful job meeting needs under...
MARK MCCLELLAN Given rising health care costs and limited financial resources, we want to optimize the use of those...
JOYCE LEE![]()
I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all American...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other c...
ED STEADHAM![]()
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l...
TEMPLE GRANDIN In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health...
STEVEN BURD From the beginning our goal was to help employers adopt a product development approach to their heal...
COLLEEN MURPHY The governor has met repeatedly with all the legislative leaders on this issue.
ADAM MENDELSOHN There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially...
GREGORY WASSON Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration ...
RIC KELLER I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information ...
RUSS CARNAHAN![]()
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to impro...
ERIC TOPOL This board is no rubber stamp. These are all assertive and articulate leaders who have many ideas fo...
GREG SCANDLEN Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem...
ATUL GAWANDE To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health...
MARILYN TAVENNER That play was all Chet. He just makes everyone miss. He's a playmaker.
ERIC PHILLIPS![]()
The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key rol...
JORGE CRUISE The government needs to play a leading role.
LIZ TAYLOR Workers at Caterpillar made the company into the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mi...
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-...
ATUL GAWANDE The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
BOB BUCKHORN The governor's action is reckless in its disregard for the health care needs of all New Yorkers.
JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM We all rely on accessible health care that's available to us in a timely manner. That's what we inte...
LAURIE HAWN Gov. Rell has every right to bring anyone she needs to into the state of Connecticut to help her rai...
CHRIS COONEY![]()
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
RICHARD LAMM![]()
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Afforda...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER Obviously, we want to ensure that people who have evacuated are still having their health care needs...
KRISTEN MEYER Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how th...
JOHN QUELCH![]()
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact t...
BLANCHE LINCOLN Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting cov...
FELICITY HUFFMAN![]()
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How c...
RICHARD LAMM President Bush recognizes the challenges faced by those who lack health insurance and remains commit...
JUDD GREGG Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being ...
ANDY KAUFMAN![]()
Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're hel...
BOBBY JINDAL I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to bett...
JOHN WARNOCK![]()
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone'...
JAMES Q. WILSON The state plays a critical role in mobilizing information electronically to support improvements in ...
JANET MARCHIBRODA![]()
Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the vola...
JANET YELLEN Our study provides beginning evidence for the important role art therapy can play in reducing sympto...
JUDITH PAICE The National Children's Study is the best opportunity to provide possible causes for these diseases ...
LEO TRANSANDE To me, this is just a survey of people who don't want to pay for health care and want someone else t...
DEVON HERRICK![]()
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspec...
JOHN BARRASSO This legislation will restore stability and predictability to our health care system when it comes t...
JAMES BUCHEN Our company's financial stability has afforded us the opportunity to invest in initiatives for our m...
BOB GRECZYN The challenge in policymaking is to take all the steps we can to help avoid unnecessary costs, to he...
MARK MCCLELLAN Union negotiations will play a critical role in the plan's success, and even with the health care co...
CRAIG HUTSON![]()
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their educ...
ANDREA JUNG $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developi...
FRANK A. OSKI That, in my view, will drive up costs in the public health-care system and leave many people behind.
BRIAN MASON We are concerned that the push to measure quality will become just a smoke screen to cut costs and t...
DR. FREDERICK C. BLUM We appreciate the contributions they've made to reducing labor costs so far, and we look forward to ...
BILL MELLON True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes,...
MEHMET OZ Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare reci...
MEL CARNAHAN I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to...
STEVEN BURD![]()
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a ...
BARACK OBAMA I believe there will be strong and bold recommendations. I think if top managers are involved in ina...
DAVID LEBLANC![]()
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity...
THOMAS R. INSEL We know that people who participate in the programs actually do have lower health care costs,
JACK MAHONEY I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.
JONI ERNST To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must...
MICHAEL BENNET
DIANNE KIEHL
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising... JIM RYUN
The governor believes that people should pay a part of their own costs when accessing health care se... DAVID LEHMAN I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for p...
DANA GOLDMAN
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small ... CHRISTOPHER BOND
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol... BERNIE SANDERS Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We...
CHRIS HOLT Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red ta...
JOHN SHADEGG
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and ... DAVID SUZUKI We believe Bridges to Excellence will raise the quality of care for our members and State Health Pla...
BOB GRECZYN Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed...
JACKIE SPEIER Neither side, and I have said this all along, wants to go through the horror of revisiting this issu...
GEORGE PARNHAM There are ways to get noticed and ways to be taken seriously that would be beneficial to Iowans, as ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN Most small businesses have dropped health care or modified it so employees are responsible for 100 p...
CHARLES WEASEL Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES fully fund children's health care coverage.
MIKE MOORE This poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum value the role Medicaid plays in our he...
DIANE ROWLAND I want to drive down health care costs.
CHRIS GIBSON First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
JOHN KITZHABER
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for wo... PAUL RYAN With health care costs increasing by double digits in the last few years, employers are desperate to...
LINDA CUSHMAN We're calling on the Legislature to quickly pass the health care reform proposal now pending at the ...
LIZ JACKSON Over 85 percent of all health plans' costs are governed by provider contracts. Without Guardian, hea...
MALCOLM COSTELLO The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as...
PAUL GILLMOR
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are ful... GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND Corruption in health care costs more than money. The price of corruption health care is paid in huma...
HUGUETTE LABELLE The vote expands health care for workers, stops large, profitable companies from shifting their heal...
PAUL BLANK (Hatch) really views health plans as playing a very narrow role. We have an eye towards the long-ter...
COLLEEN REITAN
Depression and psychological distress are key motivating factors, ... We need a better system of tak... EZEKIEL EMANUEL
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ... ABRAHAM VERGHESE If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it is free.
P.J. O’ROURKE As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompe...
DIANA DEGETTE A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
PATRICIA HEWITT
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they c... JEFF MERKLEY
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ...
MIKE ROUNDS
Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don'... HOWARD SCHULTZ Texas has a very strong health care system. Physicians are doing a wonderful job meeting needs under...
MARK MCCLELLAN Given rising health care costs and limited financial resources, we want to optimize the use of those...
JOYCE LEE
I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all American... ALLYSON SCHWARTZ Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other c...
ED STEADHAM
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l... TEMPLE GRANDIN In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health...
STEVEN BURD From the beginning our goal was to help employers adopt a product development approach to their heal...
COLLEEN MURPHY The governor has met repeatedly with all the legislative leaders on this issue.
ADAM MENDELSOHN There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially...
GREGORY WASSON Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration ...
RIC KELLER I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information ...
RUSS CARNAHAN
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to impro... ERIC TOPOL This board is no rubber stamp. These are all assertive and articulate leaders who have many ideas fo...
GREG SCANDLEN Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem...
ATUL GAWANDE To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health...
MARILYN TAVENNER That play was all Chet. He just makes everyone miss. He's a playmaker.
ERIC PHILLIPS
The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key rol... JORGE CRUISE The government needs to play a leading role.
LIZ TAYLOR Workers at Caterpillar made the company into the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mi...
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-...
ATUL GAWANDE The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
BOB BUCKHORN The governor's action is reckless in its disregard for the health care needs of all New Yorkers.
JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM We all rely on accessible health care that's available to us in a timely manner. That's what we inte...
LAURIE HAWN Gov. Rell has every right to bring anyone she needs to into the state of Connecticut to help her rai...
CHRIS COONEY
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. RICHARD LAMM
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Afforda... JOHN HICKENLOOPER Obviously, we want to ensure that people who have evacuated are still having their health care needs...
KRISTEN MEYER Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how th...
JOHN QUELCH
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact t... BLANCHE LINCOLN Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting cov...
FELICITY HUFFMAN
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How c... RICHARD LAMM President Bush recognizes the challenges faced by those who lack health insurance and remains commit...
JUDD GREGG Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being ...
ANDY KAUFMAN
Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're hel... BOBBY JINDAL I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to bett...
JOHN WARNOCK
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone'... JAMES Q. WILSON The state plays a critical role in mobilizing information electronically to support improvements in ...
JANET MARCHIBRODA
Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the vola... JANET YELLEN Our study provides beginning evidence for the important role art therapy can play in reducing sympto...
JUDITH PAICE The National Children's Study is the best opportunity to provide possible causes for these diseases ...
LEO TRANSANDE To me, this is just a survey of people who don't want to pay for health care and want someone else t...
DEVON HERRICK
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspec... JOHN BARRASSO This legislation will restore stability and predictability to our health care system when it comes t...
JAMES BUCHEN Our company's financial stability has afforded us the opportunity to invest in initiatives for our m...
BOB GRECZYN The challenge in policymaking is to take all the steps we can to help avoid unnecessary costs, to he...
MARK MCCLELLAN Union negotiations will play a critical role in the plan's success, and even with the health care co...
CRAIG HUTSON
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their educ... ANDREA JUNG $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developi...
FRANK A. OSKI That, in my view, will drive up costs in the public health-care system and leave many people behind.
BRIAN MASON We are concerned that the push to measure quality will become just a smoke screen to cut costs and t...
DR. FREDERICK C. BLUM We appreciate the contributions they've made to reducing labor costs so far, and we look forward to ...
BILL MELLON True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes,...
MEHMET OZ Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare reci...
MEL CARNAHAN I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to...
STEVEN BURD
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a ... BARACK OBAMA I believe there will be strong and bold recommendations. I think if top managers are involved in ina...
DAVID LEBLANC
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity... THOMAS R. INSEL We know that people who participate in the programs actually do have lower health care costs,
JACK MAHONEY I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.
JONI ERNST To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must...
MICHAEL BENNET
