Frank Pallone: “But, again, if the gentleman will yield, it makes sense that we get these kinds of responses because it is just common…”

“But, again, if the gentleman will yield, it makes sense that we get these kinds of responses because it is just common sense. Why would people think anything different? That is, I think, what we have been saying from the beginning, that these are just common-sense principles, and people are going to overwhelmingly support them. But I just wanted to mention two other things that the gentleman brought up, and I would like to stress again; and those are, the reason why people are demanding these changes and want these bills to come to the floor is because the quality of health care is suffering. We have prided ourselves in this country for so many years on having the best quality health care in the world, and I would venture to say that we still do, but that will not be the case for very long unless we start to put these kinds of common-sense protections in place, because quality is really suffering, and people realize that more and more. I think that people are used to having quality health care in this country, and they are not going to be satisfied with something less than that. The other thing that the gentleman mentioned is that the opponents not only talk about cost, but suggest that because of the exorbitant costs that they bring up falsely, that the consequence of our legislation would be that fewer people would have health insurance. In fact, there is no truth to that whatsoever.”