I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

I want to drive down health care costs.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.