Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this is an issue I have worked on since I have been in Congress. And one of the results of that--working with others--is that, in my State of Vermont, I think--I think--we are leading the Nation in terms of the number of people per capita who participate in the community health center program. Senator Marshall, my understanding is that in Vermont, one out of three Vermonters get their primary healthcare or dental care at a community health center. And one of the things that I love about community health centers is that they really are community health centers. In Vermont, they are not just for low-income people, as important as that is. They are for everybody in the community. We used to have a Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America who vacationed in Vermont. Guess where he went? To a community health center. My understanding is, the Governor of the State of Vermont gets his primary healthcare at a community health center, and that is what I love about them. And as you well know and as you mentioned, what they do is not only provide primary healthcare, many of them provide dental care, which is a huge issue. Many of them provide mental health counseling, which, as you indicated, we have a major crisis in. And they also provide lower cost prescription drugs.…”