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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.