Tim Ryan: “I think the last couple of points I would like to make is that we have very conservative Republican Tea Party Governors…”

“I think the last couple of points I would like to make is that we have very conservative Republican Tea Party Governors saying, We want to expand Medicaid, and they make all of the same arguments that we made during the health care debate. Coming into an emergency room and getting your primary care does not make any sense; you get sicker and it costs more money. There is also a moral aspect that we've got millions and millions of people going bankrupt, children not getting treatment, hitting the ceiling when they have cancer or some other issue. Those problems have been fixed. Folks here in the House of Representatives, they need to recognize just how extreme their position is. When Karl Rove and John McCain and some of these other folks are saying, You folks are really out on a limb here, you're not making a lot of sense, that's not Tim Ryan and Mr. Garamendi and Mr. Pallone and others who they would call liberals. That's Karl Rove, Bush's brain, who is telling you you're way out on a limb on this one, and it doesn't make any sense. I think that's important. You have Republican Tea Party Governors making the same argument about expanding Medicaid. Critical, critical, critical points. Lastly, as we see the top 1 percent and the top one-tenth of 1 percent garnering almost a third of the wealth created from 2009 to 2012, we've got a problem in this country.…”