Political Quotes

“Health care reform represents the largest deficit-reduction measure in nearly a generation while controlling the rising cost of health care for families and businesses, and improving access to and quality of coverage for 95 percent of Americans. This plan strengthens coverage and health care for all Americans, including provisions that I have fought hard for: prohibiting insurance companies from excluding coverage for preexisting conditions for children and adults; prohibiting insurers from dropping coverage when you get sick, or placing annual or lifetime limits on benefits; insuring that all insurance policies use plain, easy-to-understand language so that consumers know what they are buying and can honestly compare their choices; allowing young adults up to the age of 26 to stay on their parents' policies; offering tax credits to small businesses so they can afford to provide insurance coverage for their employees; eliminating copayments for preventive care for seniors; closing the Medicare prescription drug coverage known as the doughnut hole, making sure that we close that doughnut hole; promoting the important education and research missions of our Nation's teaching hospitals and academic medical centers which train the next generation of doctors and nurses; focusing on primary care by better ensuring Americans, particularly those with chronic diseases, have access to ongoing primary care; investing in American innovation and technologies by creating new in…”