Political Quotes

“Not, not fixing in this bill, that that will continue to exist. There are sites you can go to. You can go to Google and type in ``health savings account'' and get a variety of plans that will come up. And I encourage people who are looking for individual insurance, that is a reasonable thing to do. Yes, you have to pay with after-tax dollars. Some of those policies can be quite affordable if you're willing to accept the fact that it will be a high deductible type of policy. But, realistically, when you look at health care expenses--and I'm a physician. I've watched people spend their money in health care for years. Some expenses are so small that they're actually financed out of cash flow: aspirin and Band-Aids. Some expenses are predictable but larger: braces, having a baby, maybe arthroscopy on that knee injury. Those could be saved for or borrowed for if we allowed the correct flexibility within the health savings account, for example. And then there are the ``Boy, I hope that never happens to me'' events: the leukemia, the heart attack. Those are the ones where this catastrophic insurance really is a godsend when people have that. But, again, we did nothing. We had--we both sit in the committee that deals with this. Did we have a hearing on how to provide more flexibility, more competition with the insurance market? No. It was, if you want everyone covered, it is an individual mandate. That really was the only offering.…”