Political Quotes

“let me just refer again, since we have had some dispute as to who is being truthful and who is misrepresenting the truth, the exact quote from Speaker Gingrich, who said: We don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that's politically smart and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition period, but we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it. My colleagues on the Republican side would now say that he was referring to the Health Care Finance Administration. Who is going to voluntarily leave the Health Care Finance Administration except maybe a handful of disgruntled bureaucratic employees who do not want to work there any more? When they talk about leaving it, the it is Medicare. We are talking about fee-for-service Medicare, indeed. The Speaker himself, quoted in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution 3 days after this quote was in the Washington Post, said that he was in fact referring to fee-for-service Medicare which he believed seniors would leave if they will have managed care. We have to wonder which statement of the Speaker's we are to believe.”