Political Quotes

“The American public is demanding health care insurance. The Patients' Bill of Rights dramatically increased the cost of health insurance. If we are interested in what the American public is demanding, it is lower health insurance bills. What they would have gotten if this bill had passed and become law in the Senate is higher health care bills, because under this bill we would allow employers to be sued--yes, not HMOs. You always hear HMOs, HMOs. Look, I am happy to have HMOs, but what this bill allows, what they have been arguing for from day one is to allow people who have employer-provided insurance is to let the employer be sued. To be clear, I haven't talked to one employer in Pennsylvania who, if the Senate bill were passed, which allows employers to be sued simply by providing insurance to their employees--I haven't talked to one who said: I am out of the insurance business; that is not my job; that is not why I provide insurance to employees. I do it as a benefit and to be competitive in the marketplace. But do you know what. I am not going to open up the books and the entire revenues of my company to trial lawyers suing on behalf of my employees because they got a bad health care outfit. This bill will not only drive up costs, but it will drive employers out of providing health insurance. That is not what the American public is demanding.”