Political Quotes

“Your idea is we should empower patients to be able to pick their plans and to be able to pick their doctors, which we could do by, number one, letting those Americans who can afford it but who don't get employer-provided care buy health care without paying a tax penalty; number two, letting those who get money from their employers either take their employers' plans or pick their own plans. I guess that's why we call it ``patient choice.'' Instead of empowering patients, this bill that we're going to vote on of 2,000-and-some-odd pages, the Senate bill, which has these 11 special backroom deals in it--and I still haven't gotten to all of them. That bill says, no, we shouldn't make it the patient, his or her family, and the doctor. We shouldn't leave it as the employer is overruling you. We should make it that the government is controlling the system.”