David Shulkin Quotes

I believe in health care reform.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

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.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

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.

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.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.

We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

I think we have to repair our broken health care system.

There is no question in my mind that the health care system has to work.

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

We must continue our work to improve and strengthen health care for Georgians, and we must defend the vital protections and programs that protect the health and wellbeing of families across our nation.

One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.