Quote

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.