Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that an article that appeared and was posted last night at 7:14 p.m. in the Washington Post be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Washington Post, Mar. 16, 2015] Affordable Care Act Adds 16.4 Million to Health Insurance Rolls (By Lenny Bernstein) About 16.4 million adults have been added to health insurance rolls under the Affordable Care Act, which provided especially robust gains in coverage for minorities and states that expanded their Medicaid programs, administration officials announced Monday. The total includes 14.1 million adults who joined the insurance rolls since October 2013 and 2.3 million younger adults ages 19 to 25 who were able to remain on their parents' health insurance plans since October 2010, when that provision of Obamacare went into effect. Richard Frank, the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, called the gains ``historic,'' comparing the impact to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-1960s. HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said she was ``pleased'' with the numbers but added that the government still can enroll greater numbers of African Americans and Latinos. ``African American, Latino [rates] are not exactly where you want to be, because the [uninsured] numbers are still high,'' Burwell said.…”