Political Quotes

“Thank you. I'd like to just contribute a little bit more on the overall burden that ObamaCare places on our States in covering patients on Medicaid. As we've seen, this has grown, especially with the recession and the undue costs to our States' budgets to provide Medicaid at no cost sharing from the patients. I think that this is a key issue. It's basically free health care for those individuals at taxpayer expense. And it's just a huge strain on our States' budgets, as my colleague has pointed out. One of the key factors--and very important, certainly very important in health care--are the preventative mandates. Certainly preventative medicine is a way that we can all heal, that we can all be looking for those issues that can down the road prevent excessive costs. But such things as no copays or deductibles for colonoscopies, mammograms, such things like this is there again, an undue cost to our States at taxpayer expense. It's just too much of a burden. You know, I want to help everyone. I think that everyone should be able to have health care. As we know, if you pull up to an emergency room in any hospital across the country, you will receive health care. So the misnomer that there are those individuals who are not receiving health care is really an untrue statement. Now, of course, you're going to receive a bill for that care. And I think that just as if you go to the grocery store and you have your cart full of groceries when you check out, you have to pay for it.”