Michael Burgess actually said...

If the Federal Government doesn't require it, the States aren't going to do it, the history is actually the opposite.

Burgess argues that states can be trusted to manage Medicaid effectively without federal mandates.

12/12/2012

More Michael Burgess Quotes

I am going to tell you, in health care you don't get something for nothing. There is always a cost, and someone always pays it.

So when he gives a figure of tens of millions of people who are unable to get insurance for a preexisting condition, that number is probably...

Let us set aside for a moment the question of whether it makes sense to borrow $2 trillion from foreign nations to pay for a new entitlement...

It sounds like the same problem to me, stated another way.