Elissa Slotkin Quotes

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

Health-care policy is choked by an aristocracy of special interests. If we don't take these groups on and rein in costs, health care will continue to bleed our economy white.

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

America doesn't have health insurance.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.