Political Quotes

“Wait, wait, wait. Are you telling me this is a deal? You're telling me these health insurance companies went into the White House and struck a deal, and the deal says, If you'll pass a bill forcing everyone in America to buy our product, we, the health insurance industry, will support your bill. That's a pretty good deal. Can I take, like, maybe some other company, a lumber company or an auto company, into the White House and say, Hey, if you'll strike a deal, we'll support some bill you want. You just have to force every American to buy our product. Right? Because, what the heck, let's strike a deal. It seems to me the health insurance companies must have very good lobbyists closed tight, very closely to the Democrat Party. Because if I remember correctly, the health insurance industry wanted two things. They wanted a mandate. They wanted you and me to be forced to buy government-approved health insurance from these health insurance companies and to have the IRS enforce it. They wanted it. They got it. They did not want a so-called public plan to compete with those health insurance companies. The health plans said, No, no, no. Competition, no, no, no. We health insurance plans don't want to have to compete. So we don't want to compete with a public plan. We don't want to have to compete across State lines. We don't want to have to compete for the business of individuals. We don't like that thing about competition.…”