Political Quotes

“Now, Mr. President, on healthcare. Even as North Korea dominates the headlines, Democrats are going to continue to focus on the No. 1 issue on the minds of most Americans: healthcare. Insurers in State after State are announcing double-digit premium increases and blaming Republican healthcare policies for the increase. Now, amazingly, the Trump administration is refusing to defend the constitutionality of protections for Americans with preexisting conditions, turning its back on the most popular and most humane advancement in our healthcare system. Imagine the return of the days when a mother with a child who has cancer can no longer find affordable care for her daughter and the days when hard-working Americans who fall on hard times are made to suffer and denied healthcare coverage, precisely because they need it so desperately. How wrong, how backward, and how immoral that system was, and that is where President Trump wants to take us again. So we Democrats are going to spend the next few months, including the August work period, focusing on the critical issue of the Nation's healthcare system. We will be trying to get premiums down, costs down, and better healthcare, not the deterioration we have seen under President Trump and the Republican congressional leadership. We are going to focus on all that our Republican friends have done to drive up the costs of healthcare on average Americans and what we should be doing to reverse that awful trend. ____________________”