Political Quotes

“I allowed the other side to have their hour. I expect to have this hour, even if some of it is in silence. I mentioned reducing the tax burden. We could also eliminate some regulations. We really need to take a look at some of those regulations within the essential health benefits and see if everybody needs all of them or if there are some they would opt out of, given the opportunity, because they know they will never need them. There are a lot of examples of that. We could eliminate the mandates from the Federal and State. We have the elimination of the Federal mandates in this bill, both the individual mandate and the employer mandate. We could also increase competition within the marketplace by increasing flexibility. Some of these things we can't do, particularly to the level we would like to do them, but we could have more competition if we could increase the number of insurance companies. Competition makes a difference. I have had a number of people, though, who have suggested to me that the biggest thing we could do would be to pass the medical liability reform because doctors are practicing defensive medicine, which drives up the cost, so that if they are ever in a lawsuit, they can prove they did every possible thing that they could ever imagine or that anybody could raise as an issue. There is a cost to doing that. One of the suggestions----”