#care costs

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. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

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Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs. ↗

— Mike Rounds

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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

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Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner. ↗

— Brad Sherman

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Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ↗

— Tom Allen

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We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees. ↗

— Ron Wyden

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Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general. ↗

— Gwen Moore

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