Political Quotes

“the problems we have in health care today are caused primarily because of too much government, not too little. Anyone who thinks differently should read today's Washington Post story about Medicaid. The sub-headline reads: ``Inconsistent, Seemingly Illogical Rules Leave Many Confused, Few Satisfied.'' Talk about an omen of things to come. The story says about Medicaid: ``* * * with its maddening bureaucracy, high costs and variations from State to State, it now satisfies almost no one.'' It quotes one of our most liberal Democratic Senators as saying Medicaid is ``a vile program, a horrible program'' that ``should be abolished.'' The story goes on to quote a scholar from the Brookings Institution who jokingly says: ``Medicaid is a success story of the American political process. We make something so bad that we have to go to total reform.'' I am sure that the well-intentioned people who wrote the original Medicaid law thought they had written a wonderful piece of legislation. Now it is little more than a horror story. These same types of horror stories will be said about the President's plan in a few years if we go along with it. The Federal Government is not capable of micro-managing our health care system. We will only make things worse if we get even more government into it than we now have.”