Tom Price

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

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think slavery was an abomination.

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 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.

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.

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.

In some cases, in small and rural practices, as we have discussed, it will drive physicians out of business. So access is destroyed for those patients in those areas.