Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I also rise in opposition to this suddenly undead GOP plan to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and Medicaid coverage and dramatically increase our monthly premiums. Just when you thought we had actually slain the zombie, the repeal-and-replace plan comes back again with no hearings, no witnesses, no budget score, and no policy coherence. It is like the bloody hand emerging from the grave in ``Carrie,'' even as the credits are rolling and the people in the audience have already left for their cars. Mr. Speaker, let's return this so-called American Health Care Act to its own preexisting legislative condition: dead on arrival. What makes anyone think it improves the appeal of this plan to strip preexisting coverage from the American people? The fact that you have a preexisting condition is why you need medical attention. It is not the reason to deny it to someone. In the last round, I heard colleagues complain that, under the current system, healthy citizens have to pay for other citizens when they get sick. Yes, my friends, that is what insurance is. Any Member who believes that the currently healthy should not help insure the currently sick must believe no one in his or her family will ever get sick. That is magical thinking. But in America, as Bruce Springsteen says: We take care of our own. ____________________”