Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Texas. Again, we have on the floor with us now two obstetricians and an obstetric anesthesiologist. If women are ready for childbirth, we're ready on the floor of the House tonight. The gentleman makes a great point that in the end, having an insurance card doesn't guarantee access and having an insurance card doesn't guarantee affordable care. As we know, what the Affordable Care Act did is to again pretend that, really, economics don't exist, to pretend that the laws of mathematics don't count; that we can expand this program, as the gentleman pointed out, a program that was meant to be a safety net for the poor elderly, for women, for children, and we expanded it well beyond that to the point where, as we brought up earlier in the hour, if gone unchecked, it will bankrupt everything else in government. The time has come, as the gentleman has pointed out, for us to reconsider whether that Affordable Care Act was the right approach.…”