Political Quotes

“Well, thank you for yielding. I am not going to take that much time, but I do want to respond to the comments that were just made on the House floor. No one is forced to go on this Web site. No one is forced to buy their insurance by going on the Web site. They could go to brokers. Once you sign up for insurance, whether it is public or private, your information is in their Web. It is in their computer system. That is true for private insurance. Does this bill do anything about breaches of private insurance? No. Now, the majority leader used a quote from someone in the administration, I think, to mislead the public about the security of healthcare.gov, but that same official said at the end of that quote, The added protections that we have put into place are best practices above and beyond what is usually recommended. No Web site is 100 percent secure, but this effort to scare people from signing up for coverage is wrong. If we do care about breaches in security, it ought to apply to private and public insurance, not just when you sign up, but when they hold your data.”