Political Quotes

“I will try to conclude my remarks. On this day that we are celebrating the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, let's do right by that. There is a second part to the Casey motion that sends it back to committee so we can use the regular process, as Senator McCain talked about yesterday. Let's have the committee hearings, as Senator Alexander talked about. Let's have the committee markups and work together. I introduced legislation that would bring down the cost of healthcare and lower the rate of increase of individual premiums. I do that by suggesting more competition in the individual marketplace, by having a public option, by providing stronger subsidies to lower income families, by making sure that cost- sharing is in fact paid for so we don't have that uncertainty, with the reinsurance that Senator Carper was talking about to deal with the overall cost of healthcare, by dealing with prescription drug costs, and by dealing with coordinated care so that we can deal with the whole patient rather than their individual disease. All of those issues would improve the Affordable Care Act, but before we get there, we have to get off of this train. We have to stop this disastrous course.…”