Political Quotes

“I would ask my friend and colleague from Connecticut--we have worked closely together on a number of items--a question or two relating to the fact that the CBO report recently came out--just on Monday--and mentioned that the benchmark policy next year is going to be up 8 percent across the board. The benchmark policy will go up 8 percent, meaning higher premiums not just next year, but the year after that, another 8 percent, and then another 8 percent. I would like to know, as a Senator representing people and as a doctor, how many people in his State believe that is actually a good deal. The President promised the people from his State that premiums would drop by $2,500 per family. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House--and my friend from Connecticut was a Member of the House at the time--said premiums would drop for everyone. So we are talking about specifically people buying policies on the exchange. Yet the numbers that came out Monday that the President of the United States is celebrating--and my friend and colleague has a sign up about how this health care law is supposedly working--how that works for people when next year they are going to pay 8 percent more and the year after that 8 percent more, and these are people who are actually getting subsidies who are buying the benchmark insurance through the exchange. I know we are running short on time, but I would ask my colleague to address that specific component because I hear about it every day.”