Political Quotes

“I was just saying on reform, testimony before our Committee on the Budget indicated there was $40 billion of fraud and abuse in the system. So, for a start, last year we had a proposal by the administration that the Federal Government should take over all of the medical health care needs in this country. The fact is that we have seen Medicaid and Medicare grow at the rate of 10 and 12 percent a year. The private practice health care has been 6 and 7 percent. In fact, last year it was about 4 percent, with many parts of the country being zero. The private sector is growing at 4 percent, the public sector, where we have Medicaid and Medicare, where the Government is responsible, has been growing at 10 and 12 percent. To say it is a solution to have the Federal Government take over everything does not jibe. We have got to do something the corporations and the rest of America are doing. We have got to make smart shoppers out of every American, including senior Americans.”