Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. Many an American family has been wrecked by soaring health care costs. We know it's been a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. We know that spiraling health care costs have been a leading cause of credit card debt, and now Republicans have continued their sustained effort to wreck the Affordable Care Act. As we have been witnessing at the same time that this debate is going on within the Budget Committee, on which I also serve, the Republican plan to end the guaranteed benefits of Medicare, they think that our seniors pay too little, so they offer a voucher plan that would result in our seniors having to pay much more for their health care. They would tell the senior or the individual with disabilities, Go out and fish for insurance with this voucher. But they won't find any fish biting, though they will continue to be bitten with rising health care costs. That's why President Lyndon Johnson created Medicare in the first place, because private insurance companies weren't interested in covering the old and the infirm. Today's approach is the same approach that Republicans took last year when they had their signature accomplishment. Right in the first month of their takeover of this Congress, they came out here with this page- and-a-half bill that I call the ``12 platitudes.'' They repealed what they said they didn't like, and they came forward with 12 lines of what they said they would replace the Affordable Care Act with.…”