Health care Quote by Ken Yale

“If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to…

— Ben Carson

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant…

— Doug Elmendorf

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than…

— Rush Limbaugh

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of…

— John Cornyn

“Not included as health spending are expenditures for social services and economic well-being that contribute to health,”

— Elizabeth H. Bradley

Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

— Mary Robinson

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

“There are many reasons for increased spending on health care, including an aging population, technological change, perverse incentives, supply-induced demand, and fear of malpractice…

— William J. Baumol

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

— Robert Hall

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives…

— John F. Kennedy

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that…

— Steven Rattner

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over…

— Virginia Postrel