The largest sector of our health care economy is now hospitals, large corporate hospitals.

Unless we fix the underlying system, don't expect much to change regardless of what we do here.

I think offering a Medicare-X policy on the exchanges and allowing people... to shop and try to find the most economical plans, I think that would be a good thing.

I'm simply asking for one thing. That is transparency throughout the system, like we have in all other markets.

It's easy to understand why we are where we are.

I was finally sick and tired of hearing how lucky I was that my premiums are only going up 5 to 10 percent a year.

In this country everybody ought to deserve good health and well-being, but we've got a monstrous system that we've evolved into.

When I put that into my insurance plan, costs started going down by 50 percent.

I think that is totally off base.

Obamacare gave us, I think, some things that address the fact that everybody should have access.

I think there’s not a strong rationale for limits on the entry of new hospitals into hospital markets.

This is what happens when you have a president like Joe Biden.

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