Political Quotes

“in Sunday's Chicago Sun Times, they had a headline noting the skyrocketing health care costs in America and how they were punishing consumers and businesses. One out of ten Illinois businesses are now looking at cutting their health care totally to their employees. We have double-digit insurance costs rising. And what does the administration propose as we have record uninsured and record inflation in health care? Their proposal was to shut the hospital doors to the uninsured. And yet in Iraq, we are opening new hospitals. So on one day we shut the doors here in America to the uninsured, and on the next day we are opening new hospitals to deal with the uninsured in Iraq. Today we have record unemployment, record uninsured in this country. In Iraq, we envision half the population to get universal health care and 100 percent maternity coverage. And yet today, we offer the uninsured in this country nothing. That is our vision. We have a major health care crisis in this country, and the administration has not taken a single action to lower the number of uninsured. We cannot deny Americans the same dreams of affordable health care, quality education, a safe place to live that we promise to Iraqis. The same values and future that we hold for Iraq, we must pledge for all Americans as well.”