Political Quotes

“So AARP likes it and PhRMA, which are big drug companies, like it. All of the big insurance companies like it because you're mandated to buy their product. And there is no public option competing with them, and they don't have to compete across State lines. Looks to me like all of the big guys really like this bill. They like the fact that they are getting lots out of it. What does Joe Six-Pack get? Let me make a point. I put up a quote here from Speaker Pelosi. She said it on March 9. ``But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.'' Wow. Pretty stunning quote. Maybe those are things she doesn't want you to find out until after we pass it. I know the gentleman has a point to make. I just want to point out. Talking about deals in the bill and special deals for health insurance companies. According to The Boston Globe of December 22, 2009, the Senate bill waives from any annual fee on health insurance companies certain additional fees, and this provision exempts two insurance companies, Blue Shield-Blue Cross of Nebraska and Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Michigan. That might be one more of those special deals put in there by a couple of powerful Senators, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, cut a little deal for a couple of Blue Cross-Blue Shield Nebraska and Michigan companies--maybe that is what Mrs. Pelosi meant when she said, But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”