Political Quotes

“I say to Senator Kyl, you have worked on this issue for many years. You are one of the Senate's leaders, the assistant Republican leader, and a leader in the Finance Committee. Isn't it true we have known for some time that we are losing doctors who are declining to do Medicare work and that if we do not take action, they will have a dramatic 20-plus percent cut in their pay? Every year we have known that cannot happen, so we have found the money to put back into it. One of the announced purposes for the President's health care reform was to fix this problem. First, I understand from your conversation with Senator Alexander that this problem has not been fixed in the bill at all. Then of course, when you figure out how much the bill costs, it does not reflect that we need, under the new estimates, $300 billion more. So if they are claiming the bill is going to create a surplus of $130 billion, you would have a $200 billion or so deficit on the doctor fix alone; is that correct?”