Tom Price

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

I think that women -- that contraception is absolutely imperative for many, many women. And the system that we ought to have in place is one that allows women to be able to purchase the kind of contraception that they desire.

What I commit to, Senator, is working with you and every single member of Congress to make certain that we have the highest quality healthcare and that every single American has access to affordable coverage.

The program that I support and that I believe the President-elect supports is to make certain that every individual has access to the kind of coverage that they want.

I will commit to being certain that minorities in this country are treated in a way that makes absolutely certain that they have access to the highest quality care.

I think slavery was an abomination.

The solution that we have would ensure that every single American, regardless of their health status and regardless of their economic status, have the ability, financial feasibility to purchase the kind of coverage that they want.

I look forward to making certain that we use the resources available to us and the agencies available to us within the Department to make certain that every single American has the highest quality health care available.

We must strengthen our resolve to keep the promises our society has made to our senior citizens and to those who are most in need of care and support.

It's absolutely imperative that we have a system in place that has patients at the center.

I share with you the concern that you have about the burden of regulatory guidelines and regulatory schemes that come out of Washington, DC.

A replacement must also maintain the ACA's prohibition on discriminatory premium rates, to prevent sending us back to the time when women paid more for their health insurance policies than men, simply because of their gender.

We all hope that we can help improve the lives of the American people to help heal individuals and whole communities.

A repeal of the ACA, without the contemporaneous adoption of a comprehensive, well-vetted, comparable replacement plan, would be detrimental to the health of women across the country.

Any replacement plan must maintain the ACA's provision of mammograms and other preventative screenings, access to low- or no-cost birth control and reproductive health care.

Representative Price voted against the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2013 and has led efforts in Congress to limit access to reproductive healthcare.

We want to repeal this law and we want to replace it with positive, common sense, patience-centered solutions that put patients and families and doctors in charge of health care, not Washington, D.C.

This is a system that is not working for the American people.

The fact of the matter is that this law violates the principles that every American holds dear when it comes to health care.

The reason that we are here today is because the American people are hurting because of the healthcare program that the Federal Government put in place.

The demographic challenges that we have in this country are huge, and Medicare is running out of resources, as you well know.

This literally is harming lives, as we speak.

Docs are really frustrated with things for which they are being held accountable that they have no control over.

I think we are moving in a better direction, but we still have a long way to go.

The United States inappropriately combines and confuses clinical data, that is what is happening medically with a patient, with billing data, under the guise of wanting more information.