Political Quotes

“With all that we should be doing to help address middle class anxiety, to help the economy along, to help with student debt, to help with the challenges that all of our constituents face, what will we be doing this week? We will be repealing the Affordable Care Act for the 56th time--56. I get it. The first couple of times, Mr. Speaker, I get it. The first couple of times, the Republicans believed that this was a government takeover of health care, that there were death panels, that it was unconstitutional, that it would raise costs in the health care section, that it would be a job killer. None of that turned out to be true. In fact, the opposite turned out to be true. The Supreme Court said it was constitutional, it actually helped lower costs in the overall health care system, and we are now adding jobs in the private sector faster than we have added them in 10 years. None of that was true. What is true is that the Affordable Care Act has given 10 million or more Americans the security for the first time of having health insurance. It has cut the uninsured rate in my State of Connecticut in half. Do you know what that means? It means that Ann Christman--51 years old, a single mother, could never afford health care insurance--now, she has it. She went to a doctor, and her breast cancer was diagnosed early. She said: The cancer has been detected at a very early stage, which, with a 98 percent survival rate, has saved my life. Respectfully, let's leave it alone.…”