Political Quotes

“the reason patients can't get their chemotherapeutic treatments has nothing to do with the budget. It has everything to do with the administration's CMS and payment recognition. I have been working on this issue for 3 months. It has nothing to do with the sequester. It has to do with what the CMS has ruled in terms of appropriate payments. The majority leader is a wonderful man. He has a different view of what it takes to get our country back in shape. He has actually split with the President this afternoon, because the President said the only way he would, in fact, turn off sequester is with a tax increase, and the only way this can be considered a tax increase is spending money we weren't ever going to spend anyway and acknowledging we are going to charge it to our children. So, in essence, it will be a tax increase-- just not on us. It will be on every child. It doesn't have to be this way. The President could agree for flexibility. His Secretaries could ask for reprogramming authority. But they have not done that. Why have they not done that? Because, in the President's own words, he wants sequester to hurt. What a position for the CEO--the leader of this country--to say: I want to teach you a lesson. I am not going to use judgment and prioritize and categorize things that are most important and find things that are least important; I am going to reject all attempts at flexibility. I wish to make one other point.…”