Political Quotes

“our staff, and we with our staffs, have been working very hard at this for a long time. The goal is clear, but the way to get there is complex and it is difficult and it requires some very complex calculations about if we raise the eligibility level, for which the Federal Government will pay for anything, what does that do to the cost, and where can we put the stop loss benefit for the insurance industry so that it is willing to sell the product at a price that everyone can afford. That is complicated stuff. But we can get there, and we can get there working across the aisle; we can get there working with the White House. I would hope that anybody watching C-SPAN this evening would take from listening to us this evening that number one, it is time to do this; number two, the country is financially in a position to do it; number three, there is universal desire and commitment to do it in Washington. Number four, it is complex. Number five, anyone who demagogues this issue is really doing a disservice to his country.”