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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.

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

There should be choice in healthcare.

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president's government takeover.