Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to talk about a number of subjects starting, of course, with the fact that millions of Americans have lost their health insurances because of the unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare. We also know that in addition to losing the coverage they had, which they were told they could keep, many have now been forced to pay higher premiums. The sticker shock from that has been something we have been reading a lot about. But whether there is sticker shock because of the higher premiums, many people have been finding that their deductibles are huge, making them effectively self-insured up to $5,000 for their health care costs, definitely not something they were promised as a result of ObamaCare. We also know that roughly 10 million people, about 10\1/2\ million people, remain unemployed in America and that 3.8 million of them have been unemployed for more than 6 months. Since the recession has ended-- and, of course, a recession is, technically speaking, two consecutive quarters of negative growth--I think, if asked, most Americans today feel as though we are still in a recession because of what is happening to them personally. We know that since the recession ended, median household income--one measure of economic health in the country--has gone down by $2,500.…”