Political Quotes

“Madam Chairman, many Members of Congress didn't have the time or the choice to read this new health care law before it became law. After it was passed, I asked our economists of the Joint Economic Committee--they spent 4 months going through every page and provision of this new law--to show the American public just what this new health care takeover looked like. They went through all 2,300 pages of the bill, and this is what the new health care law in America looks like--well, actually, not completely. We could only fit one-third of all that new bureaucracy on one page. Here are the physicians, over in that corner are the patients, and in between are 159 new Federal agencies and bureaucrats in between you and your doctor. We can do better for the American public than this horrible health care law, and we're doing that today. Today, we're going to take on--this chart, the way it works, everything in dark blue is a new expansion of government; everything in orange, potential rationing boards; everything in green is $1 trillion of new tax increases or slashing cuts to Medicare. All the light blue provisions deal with expansion of government into the free market. But today, we're going to act. We're not going to wait. We're going to act to repeal one of the key rationing boards. This Independent Payment Advisory Board, you've heard today, 15 unelected bureaucrats, will make life-or-death decisions about treatment in the future.…”