Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for giving us this time tonight to talk about the important issue of health care reform and, specifically, about a simple idea on which we believe folks across the political spectrum should be able to agree, which is that the health insurance companies should have to compete like every business in my district and like every business around the country. So we come together on a two-page bill--front and back, only 24-lines' long--that does something very simple: It removes the monopoly protections that our health insurance companies have enjoyed for 65 years. Enjoyed because of free market principles? No. Enjoyed because of the amount of money spent lobbying both political parties to protect that insurance monopoly. One thing we should be able to agree on, which costs the government nothing, is that health insurance companies should not be protected as monopolies. The Consumer Federation of America estimates that this could save consumers $10 billion. This is a simple American principle of competition, of the ending of health insurance monopolies.”