Political Quotes

“I shall do so. I just want to observe that of this so- called 37 million who are uninsured, less than 4 percent are uninsured for more than 2 years. By the way, this is, generally speaking, a very health group, because only 2 percent of the uninsured claim to be in poor health, and less than 3 percent report being denied private health insurance. For the most part, these are people who really do not want to be forced to pay for health insurance, and however foolish we think this gamble might be, they do not think it is foolish. They do not want to be forced to pay, like the Clinton plan will make them pay, and subsidize less healthy individuals. I just thought it would be important to cite those statistics, because we are not talking about millions and millions of people who are sick and cannot get health insurance. We are not talking about any more than 4 percent of that 37 million who do not have health insurance for more than 4 years. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Duncan].”