Pete Stark: “I wish we had a domestic President who would occasionally think about what needs to be done on the domestic scene. This…”

“I wish we had a domestic President who would occasionally think about what needs to be done on the domestic scene. This particular little bill is what they are going to hold out for their evidence that they care about domestic health problems in this country. Now, I do not know; it would be laughable if it was not so sad that this is the only bill that they can come up with. I know my good friend, the gentleman from Louisiana, knows, he and I share the desire for everyone to be covered in this country, and the only thing that separates us is how to do it. And for this to be offered as one of the ways that we are going to make it easier is simply, well, they will have to say they have passed something. I think it is called the flexible savings and health savings account rollover. That will be a title that will certainly sound like they did something. The idea of health savings accounts goes against the basic issue here in how we ought to be dealing with health care.”