Alex Azar Quotes

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on the premise of consumerism.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

Consumers fare best when the barriers to business entry are low, which helps ensure that the market - any market - becomes competitive and stays that way.

Competition is good and has served us well.

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

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've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.