Political Quotes

“I believe the President of the United States, I say to my colleague and friend, now has what he wants: his health care rationing czar--not someone approved by the Senate but someone he has appointed and put into place without an open hearing. It is so interesting, as my colleagues from Arizona and South Dakota talk about, that the failings of the British health care system--a system that Dr. Berwick says, ``I am romantic about; I love it; it is a national treasure, a global treasure,'' but then the headline today is: ``U.K. Will Revamp Its Health Service.'' It says: Health care experts called the plan one of the biggest shakeups in the national health service's 62-year history. Its new coalition government in Britain, grappling with weak public finances and rising health care costs, announced an overhaul of the state-funded health system that it said would put more power in the hands of the doctors and involves cutting huge swaths of bureaucracy. This is at a time when we have just in this country passed not what we voted for but what the Democrats and the President voted for: a bill that increases the bureaucracy, including $10 billion for Internal Revenue Service agents and higher and higher numbers of government workers and bureaucrats taking power away from the doctors, away from the patients.”