Political Quotes

“I rise today with an urgent call for us to move away from debating whether our current health care system has just a few problems or is in major crisis. The fact is, our ``best-in-the-world'' health care system is just not working for all Americans. While we, here in Congress, bicker over the diagnosis, there are millions of Americans who know the system is sick and they are looking to us to find a cure. As I travel throughout my district and talk to my constituents, I am bombarded with requests to do something about their lack of health benefits. The vast majority of them are temporary workers who work full-time every day, but are not provided health benefits. They are welfare mothers who want to work but are afraid of losing the benefits offered by Medicaid. They are the families struggling to pay the astronomical medical bills of a loved one who is sick. They typify the millions of Americans who have fallen through the cracks of the current health care system and who are looking to us to do something so that the system works for all.”