Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. Pallone. If it's about jobs, then why are we doing all of this? It's interesting to note, and I heard this debate earlier on the floor here, that this is a job crusher, to be politically correct now, and that businesses are going to lose jobs, when in fact since the bill became law, over 932,000 private sector jobs have been created. So there's no evidence in the large job market that this legislation, the health care reform, has harmed jobs, crushed jobs. It hasn't happened. In fact nearly a million new jobs have been created; 932,000. In addition to that, this is an extremely important bill for small businesses. This bill, as you said, actually subsidizes the cost of health care for small businesses. If you have less than 50 employees, you can get a subsidy, up to 35 percent, for buying health care for your employees. And if you don't want to buy health care, you don't have to if you have less than 50 employees. I don't understand this debate about small businesses being harmed. In fact, the Kaiser Family Foundation has shown that in the last year, probably as a result of this bill--that's their conclusion--the number of small businesses providing health insurance has grown from 46 percent to 59 percent.”