Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the headline of the article is: ``Repeal of `Obamacare' Would Help Wyoming.'' I want to cite a few excerpts: Repeal of Obamacare would help Wyoming because that law is a disaster for our country. Our American health care system costs too much. There are too many uninsured. Obama reform makes these problems worse. The centerpiece of the Obama effort to insure the uninsured is to expand the Medicaid program, the existing program for poor people. This is the most expensive way available to insure the uninsured. This is from someone who has studied this for 20 years. He goes on to say: The Medicaid program is designed to be a high-cost program. The Federal Government has required a set of Medicaid benefits that are richer than any insurance the rest of us can buy. The Feds forbid most of the effective cost controls the rest of us face. One consequence is that Medicaid clients are free to use the hospital emergency room for things most of us take care of at home. The health care costs for an adult in Medicaid are one and a half times larger than for a comparable adult insurance by our largest private insurer and a child costs two and a half times as much. Those are the things we are dealing with. That is the solution the Democrats have presented to the country. That is what has been passed. This solution is not a solution. What we need to do is repeal and replace this health care law.…”