Political Quotes

“thank you for allowing me to engage in this colloquy with my friend and colleague, Senator Blunt from Missouri, who has been a real leader not just in the Senate but when he was in the House, traveling to all of the hospitals in Missouri and talking about the issues that concern the people there, as I do in Wyoming every weekend, going home and talking to people at home. You may not know this, but I was the president of the Wyoming Medical Society and worked with something as the medical director called the Wyoming Health Fairs, where we brought low-cost health screening to people all around the Cowboy State. I had been going to these health fairs for years--when I was a doctor practicing medicine, when I was an orthopedic surgeon, and then when I was in the State senate and now as a U.S. Senator, to the point that I was at a health fair last Saturday in Buffalo, WY. People come to the fairs. They get their blood tested ahead of time so they can come and pick up the results and find out about their cholesterol and thyroid conditions and other issues. There are booths from the Heart Association and the Diabetes Society, depression screenings, all sorts of things. People there are very interested in their health. When they see me as a doctor and knowing I am also a Senator, they want to talk about how the healthcare laws affected their lives. What I hear, story after story, is, you have to repeal this ObamaCare.…”