Political Quotes

“I rise to support the Archer- Bliley bill, which will be the antidote to the problem we have in the United States of making sure we have sufficient coverage for all Americans. As my colleagues know, the United States spends far more per capita on health care than any other major Nation in the world. But yet despite the rising costs of health care, millions of Americans are without health insurance and millions more expected to join the ranks of the uninsured. The solution to the problem, I believe, Mr. Speaker, is in fact contained in H.R. 3103. The reforms before us here tonight in the House reform current health care insurance practices to make health insurance more available and more affordable. The bill encourages insurance companies to provide coverages to the workers who change from one-employer provided plan to another. It gives the portability everybody wants. They lose their job and move to a job without coverage. It allows small employers to join together to purchase group health insurance for the first time, to do so for their employees, and allows self-employed individuals, Mr. Speaker, to deduct increasing percentages of their health insurance premiums from their income taxes.”