Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to repeal ObamaCare by supporting the American Health Care Act. We are here to take health care back from the bureaucrats and give it to the people. The previous administration enacted ObamaCare, and we saw its effects: higher premiums, less choice, lost coverage, and broken promises. The deductibles are so high it is like not having insurance at all. The people who sent me to Congress sent me with strict orders: End this law. And on the American Health Care Act, I can report, it does. With this bill, the Federal Government no longer forces you to buy a product you can't use and don't want. The individual mandate is gone, so is the job-killing employer mandate. Gone are a host of taxes on prescription meds, over-the-counter drugs, insurance premiums, and lifesaving medical devices. It ends ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, and it puts Medicaid on a budget and focuses State efforts on those people truly in need. This is the biggest entitlement reform in a generation. Of course the bill is not perfect. There is more to do. But I spent 30 years as a surgeon. In medicine, as in life, you do not get to choose the perfect option. You learn not to make perfect the enemy of great. With this vote we decide whether ObamaCare is our healthcare future or not. We can live with its failures and broken promises or create a market-based system that actually lowers the cost of health care and serves patients, not bureaucrats. So I support the American Health Care Act, Mr.…”