Political Quotes

“I respectfully disagree with my friend from Wyoming. First of all, the reason I asked for a live unanimous consent request on my resolution was to protect the 800,000 West Virginians with preexisting conditions, along with millions and millions of Americans. We have tried. We have come to an agreement on how to fix the high cost of third-party and individual payer. It has been lying on the majority leader's desk for a year with no movement or action. People say that we all have sympathy and empathy for people with preexisting conditions. If you want to protect that, then remove your lawsuit or at least allow us to move forward on a unanimous consent request so that we can fight and have a fighting chance, as this will be appealed to the higher courts. It is absolutely wrong that people who have insurance for the first time, now have the threat of having it taken away from them. As a former Governor, let me tell you how this system works. If you think people are not deserving of insurance or should not be able to have affordable access to insurance, then you are paying anyway, because the people who don't have that or didn't have it before go to the emergency room at the highest cost. They go right to the emergency room. They don't pay. That cost is then distributed on to the Governor, and the Governor of each State has to come up with supplemental payments to keep hospitals and rural clinics open. That is the way the system works.…”