#hea

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges. ↗

— Fred Upton

#challenges #cost #exploding #fiscal #fiscal challenges

If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first. ↗

— Chris Christie

#ahead #become #behind #decisions #economic

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered. ↗

— Julie Christie

#did #empowered #films #heaven #i

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise. ↗

— Linford Christie

#adopting #changing #exercise #fresh #fruit

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises. ↗

— Fred Upton

#affordable #care #costs #coverage #deliver

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals. ↗

— Fred Upton

#care #centered #debate #degradation #effect

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. ↗

— Fred Upton

#care #coverage #different #envisioned #first

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid. ↗

— Fred Upton

#entitlement #even #focused #future #heavily

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. ↗

— Connie Chung

#already #any #by the time #cable #come