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GEORGE DEVRIES
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising... JIM RYUN In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for p...
DANA GOLDMAN The vote expands health care for workers, stops large, profitable companies from shifting their heal...
PAUL BLANK From the beginning our goal was to help employers adopt a product development approach to their heal...
COLLEEN MURPHY It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.
BRAD ANDERSON Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.
AMANDA AUSTIN By increasing the cigarette tax, Tennessee will reduce smoking, save lives and help offset the risin...
JEANETTE SCHATZ Employees are bearing more of the costs because double-digit increases are unsustainable.
BLAINE BOS As employers continue to struggle with the rising costs of providing health benefits to current and ...
CATHY SCHOEN We've been talking too much about how much it costs to provide health insurance and not enough about...
KAREN DAVIS Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES The problem isn't big employers providing health insurance. The problem is health insurance costs.
BILL DOMBROWSKI If housing costs are going up by double-digits every year and wages are going up 2 or 3 percent a ye...
BOB STROH If housing costs are going up by double-digits every year and wages are going up 2 or 3 percent a ye...
BOB STROH The underlying profitability of the business has been adversely affected by increasing mine costs an...
TONY PALMER
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l... TEMPLE GRANDIN Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other c...
ED STEADHAM I want to drive down health care costs.
CHRIS GIBSON
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL Corruption in health care costs more than money. The price of corruption health care is paid in huma...
HUGUETTE LABELLE You have to get consumers to understand the role they play in controlling health care costs.
DIANNE KIEHL Given rising health care costs and limited financial resources, we want to optimize the use of those...
JOYCE LEE There are so many factors driving employers away from retiree health benefits ? ... escalating healt...
LAURIE MCCANN Last year, it seemed employers were much more aggressive in shifting costs.
DAVE JENSEN Over 85 percent of all health plans' costs are governed by provider contracts. Without Guardian, hea...
MALCOLM COSTELLO Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We...
CHRIS HOLT I think everybody is frustrated by the inability of the current system to insure more people in the ...
JEFFREY RUBIN From falling wages and increasing health care costs, to sky-high gas prices and climbing poverty rat...
KAREN FINNEY This agreement recognizes the contributions our employees make and at the same time allows GM of Can...
AL GREEN
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employe... RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration ...
RIC KELLER For five years, Republicans in Washington have consistently failed to help working families confront...
DAMIEN LAVERA Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their i...
DINA TITUS As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompe...
DIANA DEGETTE We know that people who participate in the programs actually do have lower health care costs,
JACK MAHONEY This cost-of-living adjustment is being eaten up by rising gasoline and heating costs, another doubl...
BILL NOVELLI [Meyers notes that GM also is buffeted by macroeconomic winds that are damaging the company's bottom...
GERALD MEYERS While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every Ameri...
RON WYDEN There is no limit to the rate of inflation in health care costs relative to the cost of other things...
MICHAEL HURD First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
JOHN KITZHABER That, in my view, will drive up costs in the public health-care system and leave many people behind.
BRIAN MASON There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance...
DREW ALTMAN Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem...
ATUL GAWANDE $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developi...
FRANK A. OSKI The Department of Defense is being eaten out of house and home by health care costs. More retirees a...
DAN GOURE Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to in...
TOM ALLEN Wal-Mart fails to address the key reasons more than half of its employees aren't covered under their...
PAUL BLANK It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all co...
BILL MUNSON [The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia ...
GEORGE ABBOTT
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospi... GARY MILLER I believe the governor has a role to play in expanding coverage and reducing health care costs until...
CHET CULVER As health care costs increase, we should not add administrative costs, which this would do. We don't...
BONNIE STEWART We see many people taking control of their health care costs by moving to an HSA-eligible health ins...
GARY LAUER
The governor believes that people should pay a part of their own costs when accessing health care se... DAVID LEHMAN
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americ... JOHN CORNYN This legislation will restore stability and predictability to our health care system when it comes t...
JAMES BUCHEN This calls into question a lot of the policies that have been put forward in the last few years abou...
CAROL PRYOR So this bill can have a far reaching impact not only in terms of better health for our residents and...
SEN. ROSALYN BAKER People need to be better shoppers for health care because more of their health care costs will be pa...
MARIBETH SHANNON We estimate that from 2000 to 2003, health insurance premiums for employers will have increased by a...
MARK GOLDBERG Every day, the Wal-Mart health care crisis in America worsens. It's time Wal-Mart, a company with $1...
VICTORIA COLLINS We have to continually buck the tide of increasing costs.
ROB FRIEDMAN We want to make sure the work force is fit and healthy, and that lowers health care costs overall.
JOAN KELLY These efforts are positive steps to promoting healthier lifestyle choices for Americans. It is extre...
GREGG LEHMAN If the federal government shifts large Medicaid costs to the states, some states are likely to turn ...
ANDY SCHNEIDER Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS Employers get employees who are healthier and employees get to get their heads cleared.
CURT MCPHAIL We are concerned that the push to measure quality will become just a smoke screen to cut costs and t...
DR. FREDERICK C. BLUM To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must...
MICHAEL BENNET Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how th...
JOHN QUELCH This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by app...
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB We believe Bridges to Excellence will raise the quality of care for our members and State Health Pla...
BOB GRECZYN Our corporate costs escalated over these last few years. But that's a short-term problem that will s...
ISADORE SHARP Today, health care costs have the potential to significantly erode an individual's retirement saving...
BRAD KIMLER We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of fe...
DOUG ELMENDORF Due to skyrocketing costs for energy, raw materials and health care, CTNA cannot continue to operate...
ALAN HIPPE Actually, the operating revenues have been declining over the years because of the increasing costs ...
JAMES BERG The Hong Kong office market has been on the upswing for more than two years. Some companies located ...
JAMES FISHER I imagine profits rose by double digits in 2005 and we are confident of the same pace in 2006.
JIN ZHIGUO
The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs o... BOB BECKEL
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if ... ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospital... ROBERT REICH The underlying health care costs are not going to go down. They will continue to grow annually in th...
GLENN MELNICK She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should b...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG
Tax deductions do little or nothing for those people who are uninsured and devastated by high health... BILL VAUGHAN
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact t... BLANCHE LINCOLN Our study shows that depression can be effectively treated in patients with diabetes and the costs a...
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BRITT BEEMER The challenge facing companies today is flexibility. [Prior to this] companies were [primarily] conc...
JOS DUARTE They certainly distinguished themselves ... but they are not immune to the pressures faced by other ...
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BILL GRANT
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and ... DAVID SUZUKI Football clubs can no longer ignore the issue of ticket revenues. There must be a tidal change in th...
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