Political Quotes

“So if you're looking at the deficit and dealing with the deficit, you don't have to destroy Medicare to save money. In fact, it will cost us more money, not directly in taxes but out of the individual pocket. No doubt about it. The other thing is that there are many, many ways to bring down the cost of health care. Many of those are in the Affordable Care Act, which our Republican friends want to repeal. And let me just go through them: There's the end of the subsidies for the insurance companies, which we just talked about. There's the money for the IRS agents to go after fraud. There is in the legislation a provision that says that hospitals will not be paid for reinfections. One of the most expensive things in the hospital system is when a patient gets an infection in a hospital and comes back into the hospital. These are very, very simple things called ``cleanliness'' and ``hygiene'' at the hospital to bring down the infection rate. And in the Affordable Care Act, it said, no, no, if there's a reinfection in the hospital, we're not going to pay you a second time around, forcing the hospitals to keep it clean. Electronic medical records, eliminated or attempted to be eliminated by the Republicans. All of these things are good for health. The preventative care.”