John Boehner: “We believe that we are bringing a solution here where we are showing the glass half full. My colleagues on the other…”

“We believe that we are bringing a solution here where we are showing the glass half full. My colleagues on the other side want to look at this solution as a glass that is half empty. The fact is that 41 million Americans have no health insurance, and we in this Congress, over the last decade, have talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. But we are not going to quit because if we do not help these 41 million Americans who have no health insurance, guess what, they are going to continue to get sicker. They are going to end up getting treatment later in their illness, and they are going to continue to pile up massive amounts of healthcare debt that by and large they do not pay for, those who purchase health insurance pay for in terms of higher fees. The reason that we have the crisis in many States is because they have mandated every coverage known to man be stipulated in each of the policies, whether they need the coverage or not.”