Political Quotes

“Those of us who support the Affordable Care Act know that the work of improving health care and making it more affordable and accessible is never done. It matters. It really matters to the mothers and fathers we represent and to the children that they love. But this bill, stripping 24 million Americans of health care, a $1 trillion tax cut to the wealthiest among us, making people 50 to 64 pay five times as much as other Americans, obviously, is a giant step backwards. One of those Americans is Linda from Burlington. She left an abusive marriage, but had to leave her health care behind. The Affordable Care Act rescued her, and she has gone on to revive her life and her future. {time} 1315 Our community hospitals that do so much good in our communities have gone from red ink to black ink by the help that the Medicare expansion provided. It is a sad day for this institution. We did all of this without hearing from a single patient, a single doctor, a single person. We had no hearings. Mr. Speaker, can we do better than that?”