Political Quotes

“If you put patients before politics, you will vote for this bill because patients care about prescription drugs, but they also care about access to affordable, quality healthcare. Now, you sent a bill to the President--or you didn't really send it to him because it didn't pass the Senate--and you went down to the White House and you exalted about the bill you had passed, and the President said: This is a good bill. Then he had the opportunity to, perhaps, have his advisers tell him what was in the bill, and 10 days later he said: This is a mean bill because it shortchanged patients for politics. Mr. Chair, last week the House passed H.R. 986, a bill to protect coverage for those with preexisting conditions, and the Republicans said: No, it doesn't do that. They wanted to change the name of the bill. Not only did they want to vote against it, they wanted to change the name of the bill. Why? Because they want to tell the public we are for protecting you against preexisting conditions. We just don't vote that way. This week House Democrats are continuing to strengthen access to affordable healthcare by passing H.R. 987, an additional package of bills aimed at strengthening our healthcare system and lowering prescription drug costs because patients don't just worry about prescription drugs, they worry about their health coverage. As a matter of fact, it is hard to separate the two.…”