David Jolly Quotes

We must always make sure that our doctors work for their patients and not for the government

Health care should be the choice of the consumer, not the choice of the employer.

We need to ensure that veterans are in charge of their health care and not the government.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

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.

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

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.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Cost containment too often becomes care containment. And it affects the least powerful population sector with the quietest voice.

Millions of Americans who are not poor are health care poor.

Never again are we going to have a little old lady, sick as a dog, turned away from a hospital because she has no money.

This [the debate over Obamacare] was never about health care; it is about freedom of choice.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

No one wants to go back to the time when insurance companies decided who would get health care.

Your care and your treatment shouldn't be dictated by your ZIP code.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.