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Health care should be affordable for everyone.

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

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

I received free health care.

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

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

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.