Political Quotes

“A survey was just done a few days ago that said voters trust private plans over Government to provide health benefits by a margin of 54 to 34, when it comes to providing medical and pharmaceutical benefits. So the American people are used to dealing with private sector entities when it comes to health insurance, and they are very comfortable to have them provide services. And, in fact, arguably even the Medicare system that the Senator from Illinois has put forward is going to be run--the drug benefit is going to be administered by a private sector entity. It will be a company that will be contracting through a Medicare agency to provide these services. The difference is--this is the real key difference between what we want to do and what the Senator from Illinois wants to do, one of them--that we want to have these private sector entities that we were contracting with to bear some of the risk of insurance.”