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Quotes About Costs

Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
~ Spencer Bachus
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.
~ Blanche Lincoln
Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.
~ Neal Boortz
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
~ Frank Oski
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
~ James Surowiecki
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.
~ Marcia Angell
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
~ Herb Kohl
I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.
~ Robert Hurt
If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.
~ Bernie Sanders
I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.
~ Elizabeth Emken
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
~ Eric Cantor
I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
~ Fred Upton
Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.
~ Fred Upton
Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.
~ Hugh Hewitt
In most of the USA, the three largest health insurance companies in each state control 80 percent of the market. No wonder premiums are going up.
~ Hillary Clinton
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
~ Timothy Noah
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
~ Robert M. Gates
Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges
~ Gerry Adams
Hope costs nothing.
~ Colette
The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down.
~ Flip Wilson
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
~ Benjamin Constant