Political Quotes

“I am reminded of the Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm. Obviously, if we were to pass the Weldon amendment, we are preventing an opportunity for citizens in the District to have health insurance. That is not something we should do, especially when they are going to pay for it with their own money. Absent doing that, these people will have to be paid for through Federal resources in terms of their health care. So that the gentleman who just spoke is worried that he could not, in good conscience, have his citizens provide resources for this, but by supporting the Weldon amendment, we would, in a direct way, require that Federal resources through Medicaid have to be expended for the health care of these citizens who would have paid for, absent the Weldon amendment, health care under their own resources.”