One reason for high health care costs is that patients…

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care…

— Temple Grandin

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics…

— Mitch Kapor

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to…

— Anonymous

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

— Robert M. Gates

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just…

— Atul Gawande

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant…

— Steven Burd

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs…

— Ron Wyden

I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out…

— Gary Johnson

While longer life expectancies have been a wonderful blessing for many families, including my own, they have also led to much greater elder care…

— Tom Suozzi

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits…

— Bill Halter

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the…

— Joe Baca

Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving…

— Richard Thaler

“For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we’re not required to set…

— Kerry Patterson

So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed…

— Annie Lowrey

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate…

— Peter Drucker