Political Quotes

“Next week will mark the 8-month anniversary of the new health care law. When we started this debate almost 2 years ago, I relied on my longtime experience in the medical field to come up with four principles that I strongly believe should be in any health care reform. The first was that health care reform should lower costs. That has yet to happen under this law. Instead, the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projected that overall national health spending would increase an average of 6.3 percent a year over the next decade under the new law. In addition, the law imposes more than half a trillion dollars in tax increases. It imposes more than $210 billion in new payroll taxes that could hit small business owners. The Medicare actuary has reported that health care costs would actually increase over the next decade by a total of $310.8 billion. The Congressional Budget Office, or the CBO, wrote that most of the major saving proposals in the health care law are ``widely expected'' to be scaled back or would be difficult to sustain for a long period. That means higher deficits. The second principal for health care reform is that it should increase access to care. That has yet to happen under the new law. Instead, major health insurance companies in California and other States simply have decided to stop selling policies for children rather than complying with the new Federal law that bars them from rejecting youngsters with preexisting conditions.…”