Political Quotes

“You know, it stuns me that you just said that, under current law in America, if you work for an employer who gives you health care through your employment, it's tax free. There's no income tax paid on it by your employer, no tax paid on it by you when you receive it. But you can go on the Internet and you can buy health insurance on your own, but you've got to buy it with after-tax dollars, making it a third more expensive. Isn't it shocking? Then, or more accurately, not to be cynical about it, isn't it pretty logical then that the health insurance companies don't compete? They don't care about our individual business because they know you and I can't afford to buy with after-tax dollars what we can get from our employer for free. Tell me, I guess I just do not understand why we wouldn't want to fix the Tax Code so that every single American could buy their health insurance tax-free just like their employer, so they could hire it and fire it and hold it accountable.”