Henry Waxman actually said...

"Just as Social Security succeeded as a wage insurance, reducing elderly poverty from 50 percent to 10 percent, Americans should have an affordable way to finance long-term care."

"One of the problems people have in trying to buy insurance for long-term care is that if they had any kind of preexisting condition, they can't buy it."

"The facts are that even with the news about the CLASS program, the health care reform law will cut the long-term deficit and save taxpayers money."

"The new benefit of the bill--the new benefits of the bill are entirely paid for and more by new revenues and by improvements that cut the overall cost of health care, cut waste, fraud, and abuse from ..."