03/01/2007
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Empowering individuals to be responsible for health care decisions is kind of the crux about what we're talking about."
"The federal government pays for as much as 40 percent of all health care in America."
"There's a choice between having the government make decisions or consumers make decisions."
"Leaving before the job was done would be a disaster, and that's what we're saying."