Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we should reject this rule because H.R. 1 offers the wrong vision for Medicare. H.R. 1 asks every Member a fundamental question, what do you want Medicare to be? If you want Medicare coverage that is guaranteed, dependable, universal and fair, you will vote against H.R. 1. If you want Medicare to cover every senior everywhere, you will vote against H.R. 1. If you want Medicare to offer the same coverage to seniors on Park Avenue as seniors in Appalachian, Ohio, you will vote against H.R. 1. But Mr. Speaker, if you want Medicare to offer unreliable, selective, discriminatory coverage, you will support H.R. 1. If you want Medicare to offer seniors in Appalachian, Ohio, less coverage than seniors on Park Avenue or no coverage at all, you will vote for H.R. 1. If you want Medicare to offer rural seniors coverage, but at three or four times the price, then you will vote for H.R. 1. If you want a plan written by the drug companies and by the insurance companies because of their huge contributions to the Republican Party, if you want that, then you will vote for H.R. 1; and if you want a bill that will force people who now have prescription drug coverage, a bill that will force seniors who now have prescription drug coverage to drop that coverage, then you will vote for H.R. 1.”