What I want to say to the speaker, don't you fly over our country in your luxury jet, and lecture us on what it means to be an American.
Tom Price
The Public Record
former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Congressman of Georgia
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September 27, 2017
What I want to say to the speaker, don't you fly over our country in your luxury jet and lecture us on what it means to be an American.
— Tom Price
The president has made it clear his Administration will move power out of Washington and return it to the American people.
We've turned physicians of this land into data entry clerks, and it is literally driving physicians out of practice.
I appreciate your passion for this. This is a real concern because, as you know, across the country, especially in rural areas, individuals that have provided this service to their communities for years and years, oftentimes decades, have…
Make certain that every single American, men, women, rich, poor, old, young, have the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their families.
We have, in essence, transferred over the past 30 to 40 years the treatment of mental health individuals... to a remarkably substandard care in our criminal justice system.
I believe that women who desire to have access to birth control ought to have access to birth control.
I think it's absolutely vital that victims of -- domestic violence and others, anybody, we need a system in place that ensures that individuals are either not priced out of the market --
The prescribing practices of medical providers treating pain has contributed to the opioid overdose crisis the Nation now faces.
So wouldn't we as a compassionate society step back and say, 'OK, that's a real problem and we need to address it.' That's what we're trying to do.
I believe firmly that the bill that has been discussed and that was put before Congress is a significantly better program than the one that we currently have.
We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower price and give them the choices that they want, for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family…
We were promised when the Affordable Care Act was passed... we are going to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare.
Medicaid is a broken system. Anybody who is in the practice of medicine knows Medicaid is a totally broken system.
Nobody ought to be priced out of the market because of a preexisting illness or injury.
Further, President Trump's recent immigration executive order runs afoul of American values and our constitution by essentially creating a religious test for entry into the United States and denying due process to green card holders who…
Representative Price's record as a legislator casts serious doubt on his ability to perform this role.
Rushing its implementation would be unreasonable and potentially detrimental to patients and their quality of care.
Encouraging work allows more families to realize the American dream, earn their success and rise out of poverty.
One major lesson learned from welfare reform signed into law by President Clinton is that the American people, when given the opportunity, work exceptionally hard.
Frankly, what we have is the expected outcome of truly disastrous policymaking.
Unfortunately, in the current political environment, qualifications, experience, and endorsements from experts and key stakeholders don't seem to matter to some of our colleagues.





