Political Quotes

“I think what we see here at the central issue of this debate is a basic distrust of the private sector. Now, two-thirds of the American people get their health insurance through their employer. We have an employer-based system in America, and it has worked very well; and some of the best coverage and the most high-quality health plans are offered by employers to their employees. Today, both employers, and increasingly employees, are paying for the cost of those plans. What we are attempting to do here is to give small businesses who do not have big purchasing power in the marketplace the ability to join together and to offer the same kinds of plans that large companies and unions offer to their employees and members, give those small employers and their employees the same opportunity. Plain and simple.”