Political Quotes

“I come before this body, I come before all of those in America to explain a little bit of what we had before the Affordable Care Act and where we are today. I wasn't here in 2009 when they passed the Affordable Care Act. I was the Governor of the State of West Virginia, my beautiful State. I can tell you about the type of healthcare in a rural State--a rural, hard- working State--where people have worked hard all their lives. They have been challenged, but they really have given so much to this great country. Most of them did not have insurance. A lot of people across America had some really good insurance, but a lot of working people--hard-working people or people of less means, poor people--did not have access. Let me tell you what they used. They used the emergency room--the highest cost of entry with no preventive care, nothing at all to maintain health or wellness--but they would go there in an emergency. That is what most people who didn't have any insurance used. Let me tell you about the people who basically were working and could not afford the copays where they worked or weren't afforded insurance at places where they worked. If they were ill or if they got hurt at home, working, they would go into work on Monday and make a worker's comp claim, again, at a very high cost to all of the States.…”