Political Quotes

“We have before us a wonderful opportunity; we can begin to solve a problem that's going to destroy our medical care system in this country. Doctors are abandoning Medicare patients because they can no longer afford to serve them. And it is turning out that we are now finding that we are losing the capability of addressing one of the greatest health problems we've got, and that is seeing to it that physicians do take care of our people and that they have the necessary resources to do it. This is a proposal which has to be adopted today. I commend the gentleman from Texas who has urged the House to work together, and I commend him for having had the courage to say so, but it is something that we must do. We came close to having this issue solved with a permanent fix. The law of interest, compounded interest, tells us that we have a big problem. The numbers in this have grown to $210 billion, and they will grow more. It is time that the House resolves this question so we can assure that we take care of our people, we deal with their health, we preserve Medicare, and we do what is necessary to carry out our responsibility in a fiscally responsible way. We are, in good part, in this mess because of the United States Senate, which diligently disregards its responsibilities on all matters of this kind. And regrettably, as we look to see, we find that this is the best thing that we can do because they refuse to do better.”