Political Quotes

“Mayo Clinic said: We cannot afford to keep our doors open if we are taking Medicare patients. Specifically in Arizona, where they have a wonderful clinic, the best care in the world in many ways in the sense that early on in the health care debate, President Obama said we should use the Mayo Clinic as a model of what works, they do not want to take Medicare patients. They do not want to take Medicaid patients. But this health care law is cramming 16 million more Americans on to Medicaid. What the President is proposing for the American people is something less than what he has previously said is the best in care. One of the other promises the President made is, if you like the health care you have, you can keep it. As a matter of fact, he gave a speech about a year ago at the American Medical Association meeting: If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. He went on to say: No one will take it away. Period. No matter what. Period. Now the White House has come out with new rules and regulations about who really will be able to keep their health care plans. In the analysis that has come out from the administration, over 100 pages--I had it on the Senate floor last week--what they have shown is, over the next few years more and more Americans who have health care right now through their jobs that they like, they understand, they know how to use--and as a doctor I have worked with these patients.…”