Political Quotes

“Martin, I am happy to chat for a little more with the American people about Medicare. Martin just mentioned a very significant thing, and that is when competition came in, prices came down. He was mentioning the optical and the eyeglasses and so forth. This is exactly the kind of thing that is going to happen in health care if we give it a chance. I want to mention before we quit, Martin, one other thing you brought up. You mentioned health care and you mentioned sick care. We euphemistically call what we have in this country a health care system. Most of it is a sick care system, is it not, if you think about it. What we need is the philosophy and kind of insurance that moves people to genuine health care. It is like a warranty on your car, but they do not care whether you put oil in it or not. I do not understand why the insurance companies would not insist that we have a physical every year, because that is kind of the equivalent of putting oil in your car, and they would detect problems. There are old adages like 'a stitch in time saves nine' and 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.' We seem to have forgotten all of those things in health care.”