Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor today as the Senate returns to give a doctor's second opinion of the health care law. As the Presiding Officer knows because he has been here for so many of these speeches every week since this bill was signed into law, I have come to the Senate floor as a physician, an orthopedic surgeon, as someone who has taken care of families in the State of Wyoming since 1983, to give a doctor's second opinion of the new health care law and what I view is the impact it is going to have on health care in this country. The Presiding Officer knows that during the debate and discussions at the time of the health bill and now the health care law, I had many reservations. My concern was that it was going to be bad for patients, bad for providers--the nurses and doctors who take care of those patients--and bad for payers, the people paying their health care costs, as well as the taxpayers of this country. When the health care bill was signed into law, Democrats were extremely proud of it, and they were actually eager at that time to tell all of America about their vote. As a matter of fact, the Senate majority leader, Senator Reid, said: This is a happy day. We are going to hear an earful, but it is going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for a long time. Here we are just 6 months later, but the new law is not greeted with happiness. It is not greeted with wonderment.…”