John Shadegg: “If the gentlewoman will remain for a moment, I would like to just ask her, I presume you have done Social Security town…”

I think the health insurance industry in America has cut a fat hog. I think, quite frankly, they have failed the American people.

No, we don't force people to do that. I guess we do say that if you want to drive in some places, you have to buy auto insurance to insure against damage to somebody else. Right?

Wait, the gentleman's telling me that never before in Federal law have we ordered people to buy a particular product, that we don't do that in Federal law as a routine matter?

Federal legislation already passed in 2006 offered all 50 States some Federal money to help set up the State high-risk pool to care for those people with preexisting conditions and offered Federal money to subsidize or to underwrite the…