Political Quotes

“I see my colleague from Maryland is here. I promise I will not take all of that time. During the debate over ObamaCare back in 2009 and 2010, the President repeatedly and unequivocally promised his fellow Americans that if they liked their current health care plan, they could keep it. By one account, there were as many as 29 different times where the President was captured on videotape making that same unequivocal commitment. This was not an off-the-cuff remark or a casual throwaway comment, it was essential to the President's entire argument selling ObamaCare. I heard the distinguished majority whip from Illinois talking about the reasons why ObamaCare was so important, suggesting that you could not cover preexisting conditions or even young adults up to the age of 26 unless you accepted the whole package, the whole enchilada, as we would say in Texas. Well, that is not true. The truth is we are committed to dealing with preexisting conditions, we are committed to helping people be able to buy and afford health care coverage. What the President sold in 2009 and 2010 was basically sold under false pretenses, as it turns out. If Americans had known that ObamaCare would result in them losing their current coverage which they like, it never would have become law. According to one estimate, as many as 3.5 million people will lose their current health insurance coverage. I have heard the revisionist history here on the floor and elsewhere.…”