Political Quotes

“Three years ago the insurance industry spent $100 million to kill comprehensive health care reform. How many of these companies are ominously silent on this Gingrich special interest health care bill? One politically active insurance company located in Indiana would benefit handsomely under the Gingrich plan thanks to a special interest giveaway larded onto the Republican bill. Medical savings accounts will enrich a select group of high-end catastrophic providers, skim the well-off and the healthy out of the insurance pool, and increase costs for everyone left behind. This Gingrich special interest plan is a bill written by the insurance companies, of the insurance companies, and for the insurance companies. Approximately 40 million Americans are without health care and without health insurance. A majority of these Americans are from working families, working hard, paying their taxes, playing by the rules. They need our help in this Chamber tonight. Mr. Speaker, pass the Dingell substitute. Defeat the Gingrich special interest bill.”