Political Quotes

“You know, I respect my colleague from Oregon, but you have done nothing over the last year but sabotage the Affordable Care Act and sabotage healthcare in this country. The fact of the matter is that the only reason you are willing to bring up this CHIP bill as part of the CR is because you put in a tax plan that eliminates the mandate for health insurance, which means 13 million people are not going to have health insurance in this country over the next few years, and the money that would have subsidized their premium now does not have to be paid. So all of a sudden you say: Okay, we will put a 6-year CHIP bill on the floor. The pay-fors were not only from the Prevention Fund. The pay-fors also said that if somebody didn't pay their health insurance within 30 days, they were going to lose their health insurance. And the CBO said that another 500,000 people would lose their health insurance. Everything that this majority has done since day one of this session has been to sabotage the ACA and not allow people to even know that they can buy insurance through the exchange, taking away their cost- sharing subsidies. The list is endless. And for you to come up here today and suggest that somehow you care about the kids and you are going to have CHIP continue for the next 6 years, where are those kids going to go? You haven't done anything about community health centers.…”