Political Quotes

“To my colleague from Arizona, I did. I had a chance to look at that mailer sent out by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. I found it very misleading. Some have described it even as being a piece of propaganda. The sad part is, it was paid for by the American taxpayers. The estimates for the cost have been $16 to $20 million of taxpayers' money to send out this piece of mail that essentially misleads, or tries to mislead--as my colleague from Arizona knows, the American people are too smart to be misled by this--it tries to mislead them into saying that this whole health care law is actually going to strengthen Medicare. The seniors of this country clearly understand, as I know they do in Wyoming and Arizona, if you cut $500 billion--a $\1/2\ trillion--out of Medicare, not to save Medicare, not to save the program that is there for our seniors but to start a whole new government program, that is not going to improve Medicare. That is money seniors planned for, know it is in their system, and it is being taken from Medicare to start a whole new government program. It is not for them. It is not going to improve Medicare. It is not going to strengthen Medicare. That is why from the beginning, to my colleague from Arizona, I said this bill, now the law for 90 days, is bad for patients, bad for payers--the American taxpayers who are going to end up stuck with the bill--and bad for the providers--the nurses and doctors who are trying to take care of these people. Mr.…”