Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk once again about the health care law. This past weekend I was home in Wyoming--as I am just about every weekend--visiting a community called Lovell, WY. At Lovell, we had a health and fitness fair that was focused on kids and adults in terms of prevention of problems and early detection of problems. They could get their blood tests done there. In talking to hundreds of people there at the hospital, what I heard again and again, as I do each weekend, is that this health care law is having a negative impact, a hurtful impact on the people of my home State of Wyoming. I want to spend a little time today talking about what is happening there. On Monday night, Senator Enzi and I had a chance to have a telephone townhall meeting. We talked to a lot of people around the State, and this continues to come up: the high increases in costs, in spite of what the President promised. He promised that insurance rates would go down by $2,500 per family if his health care law was passed and signed. In fact, the exact opposite has occurred. Today I had lunch with a number of students from Lander, WY, in Freemont County, and again this came up as a topic of discussion. What we see is that the insurance companies at this time of year are turning in their rate requests--the requests they have to increase their rates for next year.…”