Political Quotes

“I join my colleagues here on the floor to hear them tell stories that we are hearing from our constituents at home. I saw the newspaper from the State of the Presiding Officer, the New York Times, front-page story, ``Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll.'' This whole law was passed to try to deal with issues of the uninsured. This article on the front page of today's New York Times says 53 percent of the uninsured disapprove of the law. Then they go through some of the numbers and it looks as though for the same number of people who think they will be helped, an equal number of people who are uninsured think they will actually be hurt by this law. Another headline, Wall Street Journal, ``Errors Continue to Plague Health Site.'' But the health care Web site is just the tip of the iceberg. Sure, there have been Web site failures, but the thing that is hurting Americans all around the country is the higher premiums the Senator from Iowa talked about, the canceled coverage the Senator from Iowa talked about, people who cannot keep their doctor in spite of the President's promise, fraud and identity theft, and higher copays and deductibles which we now know are actually going to be higher, after the law has been passed, specifically for the bronze policies, than they were all last year until the law came into effect.…”