Political Quotes

“So if you know nothing else about the bill, this is saying, Well, this is something to pay attention to. Now we haven't talked about some of the other nifty features. This is what gets me worried. This is what I don't like the most. And I don't like this bill. I want to be completely clear. I'm a conservative Republican. I do not trust Big Government to do a lot of stuff. And particularly, I don't want them meddling in our health care. So I'm not, I guess, objective, or I am objective, but it's just because we talk about how bad it is to have an insurance agent between you and your doctor. The last thing I want is a government bureaucrat or thousands of government bureaucrats between me and my doctor. This is a picture we've seen and used on the floor sometimes. But this is a very much simplified version of thousands of pages of legislation with shall, shall, shall, which means the government's going to do all of this stuff. And somehow as a consumer of health care, you're supposed to find your way all the way across, over to the doctor over there. This is like some sort of a maze that you've got to go through. So this is a very complicated government takeover of what is otherwise the private system of health provision in this country. So that, to me, is something that really causes me to say ``no'' on this bill because as Republicans, we don't like anything that gets between the doctor and the patient.”