Condoleezza Rice on Health Care

Secretary of State

Limited role for government providing healthcare insurance

On the AmericansElect.org healthcare question, Dr. Rice chose 'C' from the list below, with a relative weighting of 3%:

A. The Government should be the sole provider of healthcare insurance
B. The Government should have a major role in providing insurance
C. The Government should have a limited role in providing insurance
D. Only private companies should provide insurance

Source: AmericansElect email questionnaire with Condi Rice's staff , Feb 13, 2012

Give people freedom to access their own healthcare

I believe very strongly in investing in the people’s health care. But we also believe in giving people the freedom to have their own lives and to really take the challenge of their own lives onboard. And so it shouldn’t be paternalistic [in] which people are [just] given health care. Governments need to be accountable to give people opportunity, to give people access. And those are the efforts at health care that always worked best. Source: CNN Espa¤ol, on www.4condi.com, “Issues” , Jun 6, 2005

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