Dave Obey Quotes

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

When insurance covers everything, no one cares what the their health costs are. Consumers must have some skin in the game.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

If your grocery store owner provided your health care plan, I can guarantee you that it would be cheaper for him and inconvenient for you.

If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period.

We recognize the significant burden on patients from continued, rising insurance premiums and being forced increasingly to pay the full list price for medicines at the pharmacy counter.

I have Obamacare; trust me - it's not perfect.

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.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.