Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it seems to me that what we ought to be doing with regard to this law is fixing it instead of repealing it. We ought to be focusing on fixing it instead of focusing on repeal. Already, unanimously, it seems, people have embraced different parts of this law as certainly necessary. You could go down the list. Twenty-six-year-olds can now stay on their parents' health insurance policies. Health insurance companies can't go off spending all kinds of money on all kinds of jet airplanes and vacations. They have to deliver, on large group insurance policies, 85 cents of health care out of the $1 of premium paid--85 percent. Then, of course, you can't have a health insurance company cancel you in the middle of your coverage. Who in the world would not embrace this in the law; that is, you can't have some silly kind of reason that you are not going to give health insurance to a patient because they had a preexisting condition when, in fact, they had a skin rash, and that is an excuse. There is a lot in this law that is good, not the least of which is that there are 35 million people out of the 45 million who are uninsured in this country who, come 2014, will have private insurance, private exchanges, called health insurance exchanges, in each State, to which they can go and shop for health insurance.…”