Political Quotes

“let me just say that I hear my good friend from Oklahoma. I understand where he is coming from. I would only say that if that were the intent--and they keep saying Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, TrumpCare, no matter what you want to call it, politicizing it--we can fix it. We have a fix. We have had a bipartisan fix lying on the majority leader's desk for over a year now--12 Democrats and 12 Republicans, working together to fix the things we talked about. One thing we all agreed on is people with preexisting conditions should not be left in an inhumane situation where they have nothing to count on--no insurance whatsoever. We have been down that road before. This is a correction. We have had this. Basically, it is against the law for an insurance company to say: Listen, you are too sick. You have had high blood pressure. You were born with a heart defect. You had cancer when you were 40 years of age, and now you are 70; it might return. We don't want to go down that road again. That is all we have asked for, and even our Republican colleagues agreed with us too. If that were the intent, to rule this unconstitutional, then that would have been in the tax cut bill. The tax cut bill was the mandate. It had nothing to do with the preexisting condition. That is still the law. That is still the law of the land. All we are asking is for them to withdraw their lawsuit.…”