Political Quotes

“there are reports that the government will be reopened tonight or tomorrow morning, and all I can say is, it is about time. It has been 40 days too long. But we also know there is going to be some vote in the not-so-distant future on what do we do about high health insurance costs and, hopefully, another vote as to what can we do about the high healthcare costs that are driving the high health insurance costs. And we need to talk now. We can't just like come up on the vote and suddenly have a solution. Rather, people need to be thinking about it between now and then, about the solutions that benefit the American people. Clearly, we have a problem with the affordability of healthcare and of health insurance, and, of course, that is related. And this is something that, in my professional life as a physician, I addressed over 20-some years, before entering political life. I practiced in a public hospital for the uninsured for over two decades, seeing middle-income and lower income Americans--fellow Americans--who, for whatever reason, couldn't afford their insurance or couldn't afford their healthcare, and they came to the hospital for the uninsured. So health insurance, healthcare costs--very complicated--and we have got to be a little more creative than just the Federal Government throwing money at them. ObamaCare tried to do that, and it has not worked. The enhanced premium tax credit, or the EPTC, is the latest example.…”