Political Quotes

“the distinguished Senator from Wisconsin has offered an amendment dealing with the Affordable Care Act. I have been talking to the staff of both the Finance Committee and the Budget Committee, and frankly it is a real head-scratcher because it appears that our colleague from Wisconsin is seeking to bring back the so- called grandfathered health plans that existed between 2010 and the end of 2013. We are still trying to sort through this, but at this point it looks to me like something of a health care Frankenstein. It seeks to bring the dead back to life by having all those plans that were grandfathered on December 31, 2013, and died on that date magically brought back to life by the Senator from Wisconsin. Many of the plans that were in existence on December 31, 2013, don't exist anymore. Plans continually change. Plans also changed in 2014, and they changed again in the beginning of 2015. I am a U.S. Senator who believes very strongly in the role of the marketplace in American health care, but it seems to me that the amendment by the Senator from Wisconsin, as it is written, distorts marketplace forces. Knowing the Senator from Wisconsin as I do, I can't believe that would be his intent. We have been reviewing this amendment, and our understanding is that this amendment reflects an approach to private insurance that is not the way private insurance in America works.…”