Political Quotes

“I believe most people across America know that we have been debating health care reform for almost a year now--actually, quite frankly, a little over a year now. And I think most Americans agree with me and probably with almost everybody who comes to this floor that our health care system needs to be reformed. I have been a passionate advocate for health care reform since I was elected in 1994. I believe I have written more health care reform proposals and introduced them in this Congress than perhaps any other Member who began serving in 1995 or thereafter. I began working on patients' bill of rights legislation, and have moved onto comprehensive reform legislation because I think our system can be much better than it currently is. Indeed, if you look at it, the President is absolutely right that the cost of health care is going up dramatically faster than the cost of all of the other goods and services we buy in our society. And the President is right that that increase in cost is not sustainable over time. We have got to rein in this spiking cost of health care, the spike in the cost of health insurance premiums. Unfortunately, I don't believe the President is right about the manner in which he wants to go about it.”