Political Quotes

“we are engaged in the first step to debate what is important to virtually every American. What we want to do is to find good ways to reform and replace ObamaCare and then repeal the provisions of it that have damaged so many Americans. Before we start talking about a big subject, sometimes it helps to ask the question: Exactly what are we talking about? So, very quickly, where do Americans get our health care insurance? It might be interesting to note that 91 percent of us have some sort of health insurance--290 million. We get it from four places, basically. One is Medicare--18 percent of us with insurance. This is not a bill to change Medicare. That is a discussion for another day. So we are talking about these three areas. One is employers, on the job. Sixty-one percent of us with insurance get it on the job--178 million people. Medicaid, managed by States, paid for by the Federal and State governments--22 percent of covered Americans there get their insurance through Medicaid. Then there is the individual market, people who buy it on their own. That includes the exchanges we hear so much about. Here is where all the news is; here is where the turmoil is. That is just 6 percent of everyone who is insured, although that is 18 million Americans. This is information from the U.S. Census. Who is not insured? That is interesting too.…”