Political Quotes

“If you would yield for just a comment about employers. I'm a small business owner, and you, as a medical physician and one who has to run a business, in essence, for health care, I think a lot of people out there may feel safe in the fact that, you know, my employer has always taken care of us, they've always stepped up and done the right thing. But what people have to understand is that if an employer is paying these high premiums and their competitor is not paying those high premiums or reduces the number of employees, then your employer is no longer competitive in the marketplace, and he either has to do the same thing or he goes out of business. So it's not like you can take comfort in the fact that, well, my employer always does the right thing, he always steps up and he always buys us insurance. This is a whole new paradigm because he's going to be competing; and if his costs are higher, then he's going to go out of business or match what the other one does. I yield back.”