Political Quotes

“apparently a number of our colleagues here are having second thoughts about the strategy on the floor. We have before us a budget resolution. It is setting the stage for a budget process called reconciliation. To put it in layman's terms, we are going to be moving from this budget resolution vote to a vote at a time to be announced later, possibly in the next 2 weeks, to repeal ObamaCare. There has been a lot of speculation about what the impact will be if we don't replace the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, with something very quickly--for obvious reasons. We have seen 30 million Americans who now have health insurance because of the creation of the Affordable Care Act. We have changed health insurance policies across the United States so that if you have someone in your family with a preexisting condition, you can't be discriminated against when you buy insurance. Back in the old days, before ObamaCare became the law of the land, health insurance companies could just refuse to insure your family or charge you a premium that was beyond reach. We also eliminated the caps that were built in--the limits that were built into these health insurance policies. People were buying policies which covered up to $100,000 in expenses. Then, God forbid, there is a diagnosis of cancer or some serious illness, and $100,000 evaporates over a weekend. So those limits are no longer allowed in health insurance policies.…”