Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Levin. I appreciate his courtesy and I appreciate his focus on the challenges inherent with the legislation we have before us. If people want to understand why we are having problems under the Affordable Care Act, this is a great example. Every single major piece of legislation, to my knowledge, landmark legislation, has required fine tuning and modification. That has generally been the spirit where people in both parties move forward to try and deal with occasional oversights, areas to improve mistakes, and opportunities to make it better. What we have seen for 6 years under the Affordable Care Act is that there has been an entirely different mind-set. It was to try and make it worse. It was to try and undercut it. I think my count is that this is the 65th time there has been an attempt to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act. It is pretty stark what this has produced. We have--and it is unassailable--the lowest uninsured rate in America right now. In fact, some of the 19 States that have refused the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, even there has been a reduction because of the availability of subsidies to help make it affordable. The insurance policies that people have are fundamentally better. You can no longer deny coverage for preexisting conditions.…”