Political Quotes

“I thank my friend for the time. In March of 2010, the President signed the Affordable Care Act. In that law, there was a revision that said on January 1 of 2014 if insurance plans did not have important consumer protections, like getting rid of lifetime policy limits and annual limits, that they couldn't be sold anymore. For over 3\1/2\ years, the insurance industry had noticed that the day was coming when they could not sell these plans anymore. They chose to wait until the last couple of weeks to send out notices to millions of Americans saying they couldn't renew their plans next year. This is unfair to those Americans, and it is a problem that ought to be fixed. The President has stepped forward with a plan to address this to help those Americans. I support what he is doing. The House Democrats will have an opportunity to put on the floor some votes that will further improve that situation as this debate goes on. This problem of people having their policies canceled is unwarranted and unwelcome, and we should work together to fix it. The underlying bill here does not fix the problem; it creates a problem. It is very important to understand what the underlying bill does.…”