Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the point I was starting with is that in Maryland, yes, there are 400,000 people who now have coverage who didn't have coverage before, and they are benefiting by being able to get preventive health care and get affordable care, but it is all Marylanders who are benefiting because there is less use of emergency rooms and fewer people who use our health care system who don't pay for it, the uncompensated care. Many of my colleagues have read letters that they have received from constituents, or phone calls, and I am going to do that during the course of my discussion. I am going to tell you a story that I heard from a 52-year-old who lives in Harford County who frequently used the emergency department prior to the adoption of the Affordable Care Act. This is what this Harford County resident told me: After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, I began working with Healthy Harford Watch Program and shortly after was insured. I have been successfully linked to community health services and no longer depend upon the emergency room as my only source of health care. I can give many more accounts of people who had to use the emergency rooms and are now getting preventive health care and are getting their health care needs met. We also now have been able to eliminate the abusive practices of insurance companies. As I said, over 2 million people have private health insurance in Maryland. They are all benefiting from the Affordable Care Act. If Mr.…”