Political Quotes

“Mr. President, after weeks--make that months, make that years of discussions about the path forward to rescue the American people from ObamaCare, we find ourselves at an important fork in the road. We have talked among ourselves about the necessity of keeping our promises to repeal and replace ObamaCare. We are coming down to the reality that, without the Democrats being willing to participate in the process and given the strictures of the budget reconciliation process, it is not going to be possible for us to do as much as we would like to do. We will continue to talk, and my hope is that we will continue to make progress with some sort of consensus on how best to proceed. In the meantime, we do have a bill that 51 Republicans voted for in 2015 to repeal ObamaCare and leave 2 years available for a transition on a bipartisan basis. Here is my concern. Under ObamaCare, there are massive amounts of money being paid to insurance companies for something called cost sharing in order to try to help bring the premiums down, in order to try to help bring the deductibles down to make them affordable. It is pretty clear it is not working, given the 105-percent increase in premiums since 2013 alone under ObamaCare. Right now, we know the individual market, which is the insurance market where individuals and where small businesses buy their health insurance, is in a meltdown mode. That is after 7 years of ObamaCare.…”