Political Quotes

“it is very hard for me to understand how anyone could be voting to repeal the entire health care bill. Because when you do that, among other things, what you are saying is that we will continue the odious practice by insurance companies of denying health care to people who have preexisting conditions. For 8 years under President Bush, more and more people lost their health insurance, the cost of health care soared, and our Republican friends had virtually nothing to say on health care. Now that a bill has been passed, which I am the first to agree is not the best bill we could have passed--and I will tell you why. It has its share of problems which should be remedied. But to say right now, when 50 million Americans have no health insurance, when States all over this country are wrestling with huge budget deficits, which no doubt will result in millions more being thrown off health insurance, to say we should retreat to where we were is beyond comprehension. Second of all, for my Republican friends to say let's repeal health care, there are millions of families who now are beginning to be able to include within their own health care plans their sons and daughters, up to the age of 26. Goodbye to that. Furthermore, in a nation which ends up spending more on health care, almost double per person, compared to any other nation on Earth, we have put in the health care reform bill billions of dollars for disease prevention.”