Political Quotes

“Look, it doesn't have to be this way. That's what's so disappointing about every aspect of the Affordable Care Act. I don't want to get too far into it, but we know now that this law was written by special interest groups, secret deals down closeted in the White House, Senate-constructed deals on Christmas Eve before a snowstorm to get out of town. This was constructed under the worst of possible circumstances. Should it be any surprise to us that the darn thing, regardless of how you feel about everything else, it's just not going to work? And yes, as the gentleman pointed out, the difficulties in obstetric care is just one aspect of that. If I could, I would like to bring up the point that I was in the Supreme Court the day the oral argument was heard on the individual mandate. I heard the Solicitor General make his argument that the cost of health care is going up because we have people showing up in the emergency room without insurance and everybody needs to be compelled to buy insurance and, by golly, that will fix our problem. Wait a minute. That ain't going to fix your problem because we know, in the State of Texas, only 31 percent of doctors will see a Medicaid patient. As a consequence, if you expand your numbers of Medicaid patients and you don't have the doctors there to see them, what are they to do? They've got this card in their hand, and they go to the emergency room to get the most expensive care.…”