Political Quotes

“It is also interesting to hear the rhetoric from the other side of the aisle that tries to create a class warfare on a piece of legislation that is really for what the American people want. If my colleagues would look at this bill, this does not treat any special interests, it does not take any upper-income group and give them a special deal. What it does is allow working Americans, people who work for small businesses, people who are self-employed to, have a choice. Is that so wrong to do, to give people choices on what they want with their health care future; what they want to do to choose a health care policy that best suits them and their family? A health care choice that they have the opportunity to begin to take care of their long-term health care future if they wish to do that? That is exactly what is in this bill. Mr. Speaker, we give portability and affordability. That was our goal: To let people have the ability to get health care insurance, even when they change jobs, group to group or group to individual. That they are not denied health care because they or their family have a preexisting condition.”