Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I think what we have is a motion to commit and the right for the other side to do other amendments. I would hope that some of them would be constructive, but I am not expecting that. As I said, I have been listening for 3 days and actually listening a lot longer before that time. I could talk about some of the things we can learn from ObamaCare, because we should. We can learn that decisions have to be made by the patients and not by the bureaucrats for the government. There are some key examples of when the government starts making those decisions. I don't have to pick on ObamaCare for it necessarily; the VA has had a few problems, and I am sure all of you have been working casework on what the VA has been doing. That is where the government and the bureaucrats are making decisions. We have been through some enormous times on that. That is why we did the Choice Act. And the Choice Act had a lot of problems. That is government healthcare. People say: Well, Choice got to go outside of the government. That is not quite true. I think the folks with the VA picked the companies you have to go through for healthcare, and when they did, they didn't want it to be efficient. They wanted as much of it as possible to come back to the VA. I am sure all of us, as we travel across our States, are running into people who are having problems with providers not getting paid or not being able to get their appointments.…”