Political Quotes

“If you will yield for a moment, there is a place where the bill can be read, the Web site www.healthcare.gov. It gives the bill. It gives a detailed description of every item in the bill. We have only talked about maybe one-third of the bill here today, and maybe we will go into some of the other parts. It also talks about the timeline in which the various elements of the bill will go into effect. For example, the senior population: The doughnut hole begins to close. Last year a $250 rebate check to those seniors who are in the doughnut hole, and then, in the next 8 years, that doughnut hole is squeezed shut. And, as Mr. Pallone said earlier, seniors would then have all of their prescriptions covered. It also shrinks the cost of prescription drugs. That wasn't talked about here earlier today. And if they want to read the bill, they can talk about the coverage options in every part of America--in California, Tennessee, New Jersey, wherever--and specific detail about seniors, about women, those kinds of pieces of information: www.healthcare.gov. You want to read the bill? You want to understand it? I would suggest that our colleagues on the other side, the Republicans, take a look at the bill, itself, and what it does.”