Political Quotes

“The Senator from Wyoming knows full well how difficult it is to deliver health care in rural areas. Being a physician himself, he knows the challenges we face. It seems to me that notwithstanding the comments to the contrary, we have to look at what people do. In this case, what the administration has done is appointed somebody to run this massive new health care program who clearly is on the record by his previous statements in favor of redistribution of wealth, in favor of rationing of health care, in favor of government-run health care. He is romantic about the British national health system, which, as the Senator from Wyoming mentioned, is having all kinds of complications and problems, including runaway costs, and now they are trying to figure out how to move away from it. The problem they have is that 1.6 million people are employed by the British national health system, a huge employer in their country, so the economic impact, the political impact of making changes in that system is very difficult. That being said, it doesn't seem as though they have any choice because they are facing such difficult fiscal circumstances in their country and they are seeing these runaway health care costs contributing in a very significant way to that. So it seems to me, at least, that what we have done here with this massive health care bill passing in the U.S.…”