Tom Price

One of my physician colleagues used to tell me that he never operated on a Democrat patient or a Republican patient, he operated on a patient.

Encouraging work allows more families to realize the American dream, earn their success and rise out of poverty.

I commit to you that we will not abandon individuals with preexisting illness or disease.

What I hope is that we do not need a mandate for anybody so that they are able to purchase the kind of coverage that they want, not that the government forces them to buy.

That is changing the way that American medicine is practiced by folks making decisions here in Washington as opposed to patients and families and doctors making those decisions.

This is maybe working for government, maybe working for insurance companies, but it is not working for patients.

It's a terrible idea.

I think high-risk pools can be incredibly helpful in making certain that individuals who have preexisting illness are able to be cared for in the highest-quality manner possible.

It is not a Republican system, it is not a Democrat system, it is a system where hopefully we are focusing on the patients.

The goal is and our desire is to make sure that people have better health care, not less health care.

I think that contraception is absolutely imperative for many, many women.

We need a system that is affordable for everybody, we need a system that is accessible for everybody.

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.

I believe that Medicaid is a system that is now not responding necessarily to the needs of the recipients, and consequently, it is incumbent upon all of us as policymakers to look for a better way to solve that challenge.

We need a system that incentivizes innovation, and a system that provides choices to patients.

If I am confirmed, the responsibility that we will have is to enforce the law of the land, and we will do so.

I think it is imperative that we provide the greatest amount of opportunity for individual seniors to be able to gain access to the drugs that they need.

Our commitment is to make certain that every single American has access to the highest-quality coverage and care possible.

I am a strong supporter of innovation, and I think one of the roles that we as policymakers have is to incentivize innovation.

Nobody ought to be priced out of the market for having a bad diagnosis. Nobody.

What I believe in is this great country and the people of this great country and the principles of health care that I defined earlier.

When Obamacare was pushed through on a series of party-line votes, Republicans in Congress warned that the new health law would harm patients, families, and businesses.

These are American citizens, and it is incumbent upon us to take that responsibility seriously.

But it is important to appreciate that things have gotten worse for the individual and small-group market, and we believe, I believe, that it is a direct result of policies that have come from Washington, DC, directly from the Affordable…

Preventive care and wellness care are absolutely vital for so many members of our population.