Political Quotes

“No, I will not yield for a question. When I feel like there is something constructive that is going to be done around here--I remember that one of the Senators on the other side of the aisle said: If you just take Medicaid out, I will be for it. Well, Medicaid is not in this version so that ought to be some kind of a commitment on it. I keep referring to this book, which goes back to a lot of the history that we have experienced around here. Here is what has happened, and all of this is footnoted. I was reading at first the footnotes. I didn't check out all the footnotes, but I did look to see if they were footnoted. Under the bill that we are trying to make some changes to, there have been costs from new taxes. There are 21 taxes that have been included in ObamaCare, but the most enormous one is the increased taxes on healthcare companies that are then passed on to the public as higher costs for insurance and pharmaceuticals. I have heard that word ``pharmaceuticals'' thrown out a lot, and I agree there are things that need to be changed there. I do remember the pharmaceuticals joining in on the process of getting ObamaCare passed because they did this little thing with the pharmaceutical Part D, where there was this doughnut hole, and through the doughnut hole we were hoping that people would switch to generic, but the pharmaceutical companies said: No, no, no. If you will stick with the brand name, we will cover you through the doughnut hole. Do you know why?…”