Political Quotes

“there are those who tell us that we do not have a health care crisis. Well, you tell that to the State employees in Maryland who have been asked to pay a 100-percent increase in their insurance premiums this year, who have been given less choice in their ability to select their own doctor or hospitals, who have given up salary increases in order to try to maintain their health care benefits, who are tired of paying for the costs of other people who do not have health insurance today, the cost shifting that occurs in our society. Mr. Speaker, we need real health care reform. We need health care reform that will provide universal coverage now to all the people of this Nation, to stop the cost shifting that is occurring. We need health care reform that will have effective cost containment in it, that will bring down the ever-escalating costs of health care in our society. We need real health care reform now.”