Political Quotes

“this bill is really a strange one for me to be working on at all. Wyoming has one HMO. It is owned by some doctors. So far as I know, there are not any complaints on it. But there are some basic problems here that people in Wyoming are asking about. Because of Wyoming's makeup, I usually talk about small companies, because under the Federal definition of ``500 employees or less,'' we do not have a single company headquartered in Wyoming that would be considered ``big business.'' But on this amendment I have to talk about big business. I have been hearing from the accountants of a number of these companies. They are a little bit concerned about what is going to happen to their health care. They work for those companies. They can see what the costs are going to be on their companies. I have to say that this amendment before us now does not address the problem. I would like to think that it did. I would like to be able to pass this. I would like to not have to talk about a big company. There are the Caterpillers and Motorolas and the Pitney Bowes and the Hewlett Packards. There are about a dozen of these big companies in the United States. Again, none of them is headquartered in Wyoming. I am pretty sure that none of them operates in Wyoming. But I am still concerned about them because there are 6 million people who get their insurance that way.”