John Dingell actually said...

"the hard and simple fact of the matter is that the health care costs in this country are running away from us and will destitute the Nation."

"the value of what we are trying to do here is to see to it that everybody has health care, to see to it that the health care of this country is affordable and available to all of our people and to see..."

"This fee will lower insurance premiums in the individual market because insurers will not have to factor in the costs of disproportionate high costs of enrollment of high-risk patients."

"So we can call this a fee as opposed to a tax. Is that right?"