Political Quotes

“nobody was home on the other side of the aisle last year when the President pressed health care reform as the only way to contain runaway costs. Suddenly Republicans have discovered the cost side of his equation, but it will not balance without health care reform. Tax cuts for the rich just passed by the House make this a mass problem with no possible solution. In the Senate some Republicans are trying to dodge the bullet by disowning the tax cuts while other Republicans over there would rather die than give them up. This is no way to celebrate May, which is Older Americans Month. Their equation is already out of balance with 20 percent of their income going for out-of-pocket health care expenses. The only way to relieve them and cut costs at the same time is to mop up all the inefficiency in health care with across-the-board reform. Medicare is not out of control. The health care system is. Tax cuts for the rich make a bad situation worse.”