Political Quotes

“Mr. President, like my colleagues, and as I have done several times before, I come to the floor to share the voice of one of many Iowans who have contacted me over the sticker shock that they are experiencing under the Affordable Care Act. This time I quote a constituent from Sioux County, IA, northwest Iowa. That constituent writes: I am a pastor in rural Iowa and early this past summer, trusting naively in the integrity of our President's repeated promise that ``If you like your health insurance you can keep it. Period[,]'' I made a change in my policy, moving to a higher deductible to save the church money. Now I have been informed that because of that change, my policy is no longer grandfathered and therefore I will be forced out of it in a year and compelled to purchase a much more expense (un)Affordable Care Act-compliant policy. I am young, male, healthy, and will not qualify for any subsidy. In effect, because of legislation Democrats supported, my government is kicking me off from health coverage that I carefully researched, chose and like a lot-- and is forcing me to buy coverage that I do not need at a price I scarcely can afford. And the Government has the audacity to resort to Orwellian doublespeak and call such a draconian policy the ``Affordable Care Act.'' Please convey to your Democratic colleagues that I grew up on a dairy farm and now pastor a church of farmers. I am the epitome of middle class America that they claim to champion. This bill is unjust.…”