Political Quotes

“Dear Senator Frist: Our Company provides Health Coverage to all our employees that wish or can afford to enroll. . . . Our Company pays approximately 80 percent of the total cost of the annual premiums. . . . I strongly believe that our Company will have to pass on tremendous increases to our employees or even drop our program altogether. Please do whatever is necessary to see that this Bill does not pass. Dear Senator Frist: We also are concerned over any aspects of a future Patients' Bill of Rights that would allow employees to sue our company for alleged deficiencies in coverage. If such suits were allowed, we would most certainly discontinue coverage for our employees, as I'm sure almost all small business owners would. What would probably happen is that we would raise our employees' salaries enough to cover the medical coverage at our current rate, and they would purchase coverage personally (if they could). Such wage increases would, of course, be taxable, so they would have even less to pay for a plan. I urge you to fight to the last man against S. 283.”