Political Quotes

“I want to continue on with why we are trying to change this. The Galen Institute--Grace-Marie Turner wrote about 70 changes to ObamaCare that occurred after it went into effect. And those changes include the ``employer mandate delay, individual mandate delay, preserved benefits to the military and VA, and reduction of funding to agencies used for implementation of ObamaCare including IPAB, CO-OP's, and IRS.'' Co-ops are an interesting thing. I was suggesting during the time that ObamaCare was being considered that small business health plans might make a real difference in costs for small businesses. Now, the only thing I can see on small businesses in here is that if you are a small business and you have over 50 employees, you have a problem. I have people in Wyoming who come to me and say: I have this business. It is working really well, and in the next town over--and most of the towns aren't big enough to hold two of the same kind of store--so in the next town over, I would like to put in the same kind of shop. My question to them is: How many employees do you have? Most of them have said: Well, I have about 48 employees. I said: How many will you need in the other store? They said: Well, I hope to need the same amount of people. I said: Well, the way this works, you are going to come under much increased healthcare costs, and you better take a look at that before you make your expansion. So it has cost jobs that way.…”