Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor today--and the Republican leader has already addressed this body--to discuss the issues of health care, about new revelations, new information that has come forth in terms of the specifics of the costs of the health care bill that has been signed into law--the costs that far exceed what was ever anticipated. I come here as somebody who has practiced medicine in Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming, as medical director of the Wyoming Health Fairs, a program that provided low-cost health screening in Wyoming. This gave people an opportunity to take more responsibility for their own health and keep down costs of their medical care. I come to the floor with a second opinion, as a physician--a practicing physician, taking care of patients; it is a second opinion about the health care law. Today, I come to the floor because the goal of the health care bill was truly to improve quality and access and get the cost of care down. Those are the things I think all of the Senate wanted to have achieved. But having seen this bill that has been passed and signed into law, I believe the bill is going to be bad for patients, bad for our providers, the nurses and doctors who take care of them, and bad for the payers--the American people, who will foot the bill for this health care bill.…”