Ron Johnson actually said...

"If we can enhance the private sector pick-up of these costs before we put them on the Federal budget, everyone comes out ahead."

"It is simply not a time at which we can commit the taxpayer to additional mandatory spending commitments without thinking very hard about it."

"I think that is exactly the way that this health care was designed. It was designed to lead to government takeover of the health care system basically a single-payer system."

"I think going through a Federal government is the least efficient way of pooling those risks and taking care of those individuals."