Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, in closing, I actually don't know anybody who is supporting the red tape of the insurance company. What I find interesting is that we think it is a better solution to add thousands of pages of new government regulations and thousands of new government bureaucrats on top of that system and think somehow it is going to be better. Let me address a couple of things that have come up in this debate and some things that we discussed in the past. One of them is the cost of this bill. Other committees have talked about it and will again. There have been claims today that repeal will cost the taxpayers variously $230 billion or a trillion dollars based on what the CBO has said. We find that incredible that repealing this job-killing legislation is actually going to cost us money. So the question comes why are these things different. It turns out there is a wonderful piece in The Wall Street Journal today that addresses that specifically. I will just quote it. It says: How then does the Affordable Care Act magically convert a trillion dollars in new spending into painless deficit reduction? It is all about budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline. We heard some words today addressing that fact. Some of our physicians pointed out that in order to get the numbers to add up, you have to assume that we are going to continue to punish physicians who are providing Medicare services.…”