Tom Price: “I call it patient centered when I am talking about private because it means that patients are empowered to do what they…”

“I call it patient centered when I am talking about private because it means that patients are empowered to do what they feel is appropriate in their instance. When you have a medical problem or when somebody else has a medical problem, their decision about what they want to do to treat that may not be what mine would be or my family's would be. It is only when individuals get to make those personal decisions that we are able to make certain that patient-centered health care exists. When we try to describe what the future may be if our friends on the other side of the aisle had their way and put in place a government system that they tried to do in the early 1990s, all you have to do is think about the last time you were at your doctor's and you needed a test or an X-ray or some type of procedure done.”