Political Quotes

“as the ranking member of the Budget Committee, I want to take this opportunity to make several points in opposition to the Republican side-by-side amendment and in support of the amendment that I have offered. Like many Republican proposals, if you read the Republican amendment, it sounds good on the surface, but if you probe half an inch into it, you recognize what an incredible disaster it will be for working families of this country--nice words, but devastating impacts. So I want to talk about that. No. 2, I want to talk about what it will mean if, in fact, the Republicans are successful in doing what they want to do, which is repealing the Affordable Care Act--something which I, and I think virtually every Democrat, will do our best to oppose--and what it will mean to the American people if the Affordable Care Act is repealed without any alternative to replace it. What that, in fact, will mean is throwing 30 million people off of their health insurance. Thirty million people will lose their health insurance. I have not seen any Republican studies as to how many of those people will die, but certainly many thousands of them will die because if you are sick and you don't have any money and you don't have any health insurance, you cannot get to a doctor or you cannot get to a hospital. In fact, there have been some studies suggesting that thousands of people will die, and certainly many others will become much sicker than they should be.…”