Political Quotes

“first, I want to thank my friend from Washington State, who has been such a leader on healthcare. In looking at her chart, at the junk insurance amendment and all of the groups opposing it, it reminds me of the calls I used to get prior to the Affordable Care Act from someone who was healthy and young and had a policy for years that was only $50 a month. He thought it was great. Then, all of a sudden, he got sick or his child got sick. He called me up and said: I paid into insurance all of these years, and they only covered 1 day in the hospital. I remember having that conversation with somebody--or no days in the hospital. That is what you call a junk insurance plan. This latest version of the healthcare bill would allow that to come back so that somebody will have the false confidence in paying $30, $40, $50 a month and thinking he has insurance. Then, if something happens, he will find out it is just a bunch of junk and that it does not cover anything. That is going to be legal again. Right now, it is not legal to do that. With health reform, we stopped that. But that would be legal again under this proposal, and I am deeply concerned about that. I am obviously rising to talk about the Republican healthcare bill. I do not believe it is a healthcare bill, but that is what we are debating, is healthcare or whether healthcare will be taken away.…”