Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let's look at how all this started. Right down this hall, a few months ago, Senator McConnell, a handful of Republican Senators, the drug lobbyists, insurance company lobbyists, and Wall Street lobbyists met in that office behind closed doors. Most Republican Senators didn't know what was happening, no Democratic Senators knew what was happening, and the American public didn't know what was happening. This bill--written by drug companies, insurance companies, and Wall Street--was sent to the Senate floor, was discussed, and, alas, it was big tax cuts for the drug companies and the insurance companies. When you think about this, you have U.S. Senators who get taxpayer- subsidized insurance, Senators who get insurance provided by taxpayers who are going to rip it away from potentially 700-, 800-, 900,000 Ohioans. I stand with Governor Kasich. Governor Kasich said: You don't pass legislation--you don't meet in the majority's leader's office down the hall here, write legislation with drug company and insurance company lobbyists, and then take Medicaid away, take insurance away, disrupt the insurance markets. You just don't do things that way. A professor of healthcare finance at Case Western in Cleveland wrote yesterday that millions would lose coverage and that middle-income Americans would be ``priced out of the market.'' If I could talk for a moment about what happens to individuals, yesterday I was on the phone with Donna May from Gahanna, OH.…”