Political Quotes

“Then what happened yesterday? The President, in talking about his vision for the budget--by the way, his second vision for the budget this year--doubled down on the Independent Payment Advisory Board and said it's such a good idea we're going to do even more. You know Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the National Institutes of Health, talked about a day medicine is going to become much more personalized, personalized, predictive, therefore more preventive and requiring more participation by patients. Wouldn't it be great, following Chairman Ryan's vision, that we personalized Medicare to match that personalized medicine that our children and our grandchildren are going to enjoy in the future? Instead, we are going to end up with more of the same, which is a benevolent, albeit benevolent central planner, moving those data points around on a spreadsheet. Why not put the power back in the hands of the American people? That's what the Ryan budget plan does. We ought to support his effort and be grateful for its presence.”