Political Quotes

“the focus of this House has been almost entirely on what the President did wrong and next to none on how Americans across this country have themselves been wronged in a variety of ways. One of those that I hear the most from Texas concerns the whole problem of health care and access to health care, the fact that too many people find themselves subject to health care providers who are gagged, they do not have a choice with regard to their health plan, that they are being harmed in some cases by the decisions that a clerk someplace, not a health care professional, not themselves, but a clerk somewhere who might get a bonus by denying them health care makes. I would say that, in the waning days of this Congress, which has done so little to right the wrongs of the American people, that the President ought to say to the Congress, you cannot go home until you right the wrongs that have been done to the American people with reference to health care. Let us see some meaningful reform of the way these managed care organizations work, the way they interfere in the doctor-patient relationship. Let us see something done to help the problems that the ordinary American family faces. Let us not go home until the job is completed. I hope the President will speak out on this issue.”