Quotes About Costs

I believe that providing options - not mandates - is the best way to reduce costs and improve the quality of our health care.

It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors.

We know that Congress must find ways to reduce the cost of health insurance, including premiums and out-of-pocket costs, as well as to lower the actual costs of health care.

The burden of high energy costs is felt disproportionately by low-income and Black and brown families. Every person has the right to these basic services and by making them public goods, we can unburden families and reduce our country's dependence on fossil fuels.

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.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

Instead of legislating through the courts, Republicans in Congress should join with Democrats to make further progress reducing costs and expanding access to quality healthcare.

Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.

I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

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

Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.

As governor, I'll work to lower health care costs for all of us.

I want to drive down health care costs.

If we were to build a health care system from scratch, single-payer would be the way to go. But we have a very complex health care system in America.

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.

It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone's doorstep, that costs a lot of money.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

One little mistake at the highest level costs you a fight, which I've learned.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.