Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I spent Friday visiting with colleagues, friends, patients at the Wyoming Medical Center. Across the board, after talking to physicians, talking to patients, talking to others in the hospital as well as around the State of Wyoming, people believe it is going to be bad for patients, those waiting to get their care; bad for payers, the taxpayers of this country, the individuals who are paying for their insurance as well; and bad for providers, the nurses and the doctors whom I talked to. They have incredible concerns about what the impact is going to be on nurses and doctors when taking care of patients. The patients' concerns are, are they going to get the kind of care they want, the kind they are accustomed to, because no matter where I go in Wyoming, I hear people saying: This is a bill that wasn't passed to help me; it was passed and forced down our throats to help someone else, and they are going to make me buy a product that I might not want to buy, according to a number of criteria the government puts forward. They may not want what the government says they have to buy, and then you get back to the Constitution. Does this government and does Congress have a right to tell the American people what they must purchase?”