Political Quotes

“I did want to enter in a couple of ideas before we move right into that. You know, Mr. Speaker, the other side of the aisle oftentimes says to us: well, now, you Republicans, you want to repeal ObamaCare. You mean to say you want to stop what is in it in terms of increasing insurance coverage up to age 26? Do you mean to say that you want to bring back preexisting conditions that would prevent some from getting health care coverage because of chronic disease? Do you mean that you don't want to see insurance expanded? Well, of course not. We don't want to see those things return. That is to say we don't want to see once again that kids up to age 26 for some reason can't get insurance covered by their parents. Of course we don't want to see that. And certainly we don't want to bring back preexisting illnesses to somehow block people from getting care. Those are all things that both sides of the aisle can agree on. The problem is that the structure of ObamaCare that is so steeped in bureaucracy and so costly and so, I guess, handcuffing if you will of health care in general, health care decisions made by doctors, by the patients themselves, that is so difficult that what you are really getting is a situation where you are throwing the baby out with the bath water. The few benefits that are in ObamaCare are certainly way outweighed by all of the problems.…”