The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the only good news.

a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system.

There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance.

There are lots of things on the table, but there's nothing that will have a significant impact on the rate of increase of health care costs.

If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.

The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.