Political Quotes

“Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute and coauthor of a book called ``Why ObamaCare Is Wrong For America.'' Having read the book, I will tell my colleagues a lot of the things I have been talking about during the debate leading up to the vote on ObamaCare and that I have been talking about afterwards as a doctor's second opinion are included in her book. She specifically writes that no, you can't keep your health insurance. There are about 150 million Americans who get their coverage at work. We are not talking about people on Medicare; we are talking about nonelderly Americans who get their coverage at work. The Congressional Budget Office, when we were debating the health care law, estimated that maybe 9 million, 10 million of those people, or about 7 percent of the employees who currently get their health insurance through work, may lose their health insurance at work, in spite of the fact that the President said if you like what you have, you can keep it. But this survey of 1,300 different companies-- organizations that provide health insurance--30 percent of them say I don't think we are going to follow that route. We are talking about a significantly larger number than the Congressional Budget Office had even anticipated. The numbers are astonishing.…”