Political Quotes

“The gentleman who has just spoken has it backwards. What would hurt American workers is not the Affordable Care Act. Millions have signed up to be covered. What would hurt American workers is this bill. I said yesterday--and no one has refuted it--this bill would mean that 1 million people, according to CBO, would lose their employer- based health insurance. By definition, these are people who are working. They would lose their employer-based health insurance. That is what CBO has estimated, and no one has refuted it. It would increase the number, according to CBO, of uninsured by half a million. No one has refuted this. CBO also says that it would add $74 billion to the deficit--again, this is CBO--and no one on the Republican side has refuted this. This would put five times more people at risk of adverse effects than would be true under any other circumstance. So, essentially, you have a bill that would cost 1 million people their employer-based health insurance, would increase the number of uninsured by about half a million, and would add $74 billion to the deficit. Instead of talking about unemployment insurance, instead of talking about minimum wage, instead of talking about immigration legislation, we have a bill up today that would have these adverse consequences.…”