Political Quotes

“If an insurance company or plan like Kaiser company has a contract to provide care, they would be obligated to provide the care they contracted to provide. They can't all of a sudden just opt out and say we have decided we don't want to do that anymore or we are going to charge more money for it. I really don't understand the point of the Senator from Minnesota in that regard. Second, he argued that under this amendment it could well come to pass, probably would come to pass, that so many physicians would charge so much more that pretty soon people wouldn't be able to afford their medical care. Yet it has also been argued here that very few people would want to take advantage of this; that 92 percent of the people in Medicare are happy with the care that they are getting. I don't think you can have it both ways. I don't think you can argue on the one hand that there would be dire consequences because everybody will want to do this and on the other hand everything is just fine and nobody is going to want to do it. The truth of the matter is that probably not very many people will want to do this and therefore it will not have dire consequences on the system. But for those people who do want to do it, it becomes a very important matter to them. They may want to spend whatever they have-- whether they have very much or not--in order to get that physician of their choice.”