Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. Look, the Supreme Court will be hearing the case about the individual mandate next week, and I don't think we want to argue this now. We don't have any judges here. But let me say, on the individual mandate, it really is ironical that the more conservative, apparently, you are, the more you dislike the individual mandate, when the individual mandate was the central point within the health care reform proposal of conservatives in this country several decades ago. It was their central point in the eighties and in the nineties. And now they've reversed course and claim, I guess, what they proposed in the seventies and eighties was constitutional then is unconstitutional today. Talk about a flip-flop. That is, I think, maybe an unconstitutional flip-flop, but the Court will decide that. {time} 1830 Let me just say a word about cost containment and the importance of our addressing that and the importance of our reforming the present system, how we reimburse the fee-for-service system. I don't think it's been noticed that, in addition to IPAB, ACA has a number of provisions that will go into effect long before IPAB could become operational. Those systems are beginning to work. For conservatives who talk about the importance of cost containment, they want to repeal an act that has within it not only the seeds of cost containment, but the instrumentalities of it. In fact, they're beginning to work well enough.…”