Frank Pallone: “I am amazed because I watched the Republican leadership and the Republican President, and it just seems sometimes I…”

“I am amazed because I watched the Republican leadership and the Republican President, and it just seems sometimes I think that they are motivated, as the gentleman said, just because of special interests. In other words, the health insurance companies give a lot of money to their campaigns, so they want to support them. Other times, I think they are just stuck in this sort of right-wing antigovernment idealogical cloud of some sort, that they are just not thinking about what is practical. They just think anything that the government does has to be bad because idealogically they do not believe in the government. So when we have a good program like Medicare, traditional Medicare fee-for-service that works as effective and is actually saving money is a bargain, they do not want to use it, they want to tear it down. Whether it is their ideology, which I think is very backward, or it is the special interest money they are getting from the insurance company, the bottom line is they are just not being practical.”