Political Quotes

“Or maybe even a small doctor's office. If their employer doesn't give them employer-paid health care coverage, here's what we do the little guy. Here's what we do to the least among us. We say, Oh, you really ought to be insured, but we're going to smack you down. We're going to make you pay income tax first before you buy that health insurance; that is to say, we're going to punish you if you decide to spend your money on health insurance. So the $5,000 health insurance policy that this guy over here got from his employer that cost him zero in taxes, maybe it cost him or his employer $5,000, that plan for the little guy who doesn't work from an employer that provides health care coverage, that plan costs $5,000, we'll say, plus another third, or another, close to a third, we'll say another 15 or $1,800. That plan costs the little guy $6,800, because he has to go out and earn the $5,000, then he has to go out and earn $1,800 in income taxes on top of that and spend the total $6,800-- $5,000 on insurance, $1,800 on income tax--to get the same policy that the guy that worked for the big employer got for free. How can we morally justify that in this Nation?”