Argument Quote by John Quiggin

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely…

— Paul Ryan

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the…

— Kim Campbell

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post…

— Mitt Romney

“Many countries have state-dominated or state-run systems with little competition. Their historically lower costs and favorable mortality statistics have led some to advocate that…

— Michael E. Porter

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

— Noam Chomsky

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

— Noam Chomsky

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing,…

— Thomas Sowell

You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have…

— Barack Obama

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that…

— Russ Feingold

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost…

— Arnold Kling

Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do...…

— Brian Schatz

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming…

— Barack Obama