I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

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.

I want to drive down health care costs.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

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.