Political Quotes

“There was so much misinformation just given out by the previous speaker that it's hard to know where to start. The Republicans have said they don't like the Affordable Care Act. But what do they have to replace it with? They said they're going to repeal it and replace it. What are they going to do about the uninsured in this country, about the high cost of health care, about the people who can't even buy insurance even if they have the money because they have preexisting medical conditions? We have had no proposal from the Republicans, except in their budget they want to take Medicare away from future seniors by making it a block grant. And they want to cut the Medicaid program, which cuts a big hole in the safety net for the poor to get their health care needs, which means people in nursing homes would be dumped out of those nursing homes. {time} 1500 But the bill before us now is to stop the program that would train primary care physicians. Does anybody disagree with the notion that we need more primary care physicians? Evidently, the Republicans do because as we heard from the last speaker, she wants to make it an appropriated program, not a mandatory spending program. Well, it's been in the mandatory program in spending in Medicare and Medicaid since 1965. Training physicians should be supported with assured funding that we could rely on. We can't train a doctor in just 1 year.…”