Political Quotes

“Again, this law will cost jobs. It is going to blow a hole in our deficit, and we haven't even talked about the quality aspect; how it is going to harm the health care system, how it will lead to rationing, and the type of medical motivation. The Senator heard the story about my daughter and these marvelous surgeons. When my daughter was first born with a serious congenital heart defect, one of these wonderful human beings came in at 1:30 in the morning and saved her life. Then, 8 months later, when her heart was the size of a plum, they reconstructed the upper chamber of her heart so that now her heart operates backward. We are going to limit those types of innovations that saved my daughter's life. We are not going to have that type of advancement in medicine if the government takes over control of our health care system. So the effect on our budget--the uncertainty in terms of how it is going to destroy and explode our deficits versus the harm it is going to cause the quality of care--leads to rationing, lower innovation. When it is all put together, I think the greatest single priority we have to have moving forward is we have to make sure the brakes are put on this health care law, that it is repealed, and, again, replaced with patient-centered, free market-based reforms.”