Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, those of my colleagues who are supporters of this measure really have to vote against the Coburn amendment, and they have to do it for a reason of substance and a reason of process. The substantive reason is that if they argue that this is all about freeing doctors, freeing doctors to use their individual liberty to go and negotiate with their plans, then they cannot have it both ways, they cannot say except in this one instance and be consistent. Secondly, if they are for the bill, they cannot vote for the Coburn amendment. Because if we look at the people who voted for the rule to allow this to happen at all, nearly half of them are pro-choice Members and they will kill the bill with the Coburn amendment. So to be consistent and support the right of doctors to individually and collectively argue for good care for their patients and to be consistent and say they want the bill to pass, they must vote against the Coburn amendment unless they are going to go home to their doctors and let them know they tried to have it both ways.”