Political Quotes

“Obviously, I rise in opposition to this, and I understand my colleague from Florida's great expertise in this area and served in the previous administration. But when you have to subsidize a plan--there are a couple of problems. First of all, before ObamaCare came into being, or the Affordable Care Act--I am not trying to be disrespectful--insurance was regulated by States. The new law yanked that away from States to the point where they created a system of mandatory coverage that was unaffordable. So then part of the plan was, well, we need to subsidize these plans because, actuarially, they are not going to work without government intervention. Now, the Court case on this, we thought--and actually, I guess the Court case is still pending. Can the Federal Government force someone to buy something they don't want to buy? And we probably will hear another ruling on that. Initially, they said, yeah. The real debate shifted to: Does the Federal Government have the power to tax, versus do you have the power to force someone to buy something they don't want to buy? So the Supreme Court, in that ruling, said, since the Federal Government has the power to tax, this is really a tax; then, yeah, we can do this. So then we had the rollout. And the rollout, I think, in the public's eye, as a whole--first, due to the delay because of the computer system, the network couldn't manage it. And then, just the cost.…”