Tom Price

I firmly believe that Dr. Price has the experience and qualifications necessary to effectively lead this large and diverse set of agencies.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We are absolutely committed to making certain that that child and every other child and every other individual in this Nation has access to the highest-quality care possible.

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.

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

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.

We look forward to working with you, sir. I think transparency in this area and so many others is vital.

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.

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.

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…

I think the CHIP program, with policymakers, has to be looked at, and I believe it ought to be extended.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.