Political Quotes

“The number one cause of personal bankruptcies in this country is the cost of health care. Most of those people are so-called ``insured.'' These are the policies that are being offered that people find out, when they get sick, that they really aren't insured. A major goal of ObamaCare is to protect every consumer from the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry. Starting next year, no consumer can be denied coverage or charged more due to a preexisting condition. This means that 129 million Americans will no longer have to live in fear that they could, one day, be unable to obtain affordable coverage needed to maintain their health or even to save their lives. The Upton bill would turn back the clock. The Upton bill would allow insurers to cherry-pick among all health care consumers--the young, the healthy--by offering non-ObamaCare-compliant policies, leaving only the old and sick to purchase coverage in the marketplace. This is something they have wanted to do and have been doing for decades. This is going to drive up premiums and allow just the type of discrimination that ObamaCare absolutely ends. Speaker Boehner said yesterday, We have currently the best health care delivery system in the world. Are you kidding me--with tens of millions of people uninsured and tens of millions more with bad policies that don't cover this?…”