Political Quotes

“this is an exciting day. We are going to make a difference in health care for this country--not sick care; health care--and this will unlock a door that will allow people to get the kind of genetic testing where they can tell if something down the road might happen to them and prevent it, or at least weaken the effect of it. As time goes on, we will find more causes that will relate back to the genome and people will be able to immediately check if that new problem could relate to them and they can solve it before it happens to them. That is health care. That gets us away from sick care. I finished a tour in Wyoming. I called it the 10 stops for 10 steps of health care. I collected ideas from across this body on ways we could solve health care problems in America. It is 10 steps. They can be done separately. If they are done separately, each step will get us closer to lower costs and better access. If all of them are done, we will have every American insured. We need to get into prevention, particularly of chronic illnesses, and this bill will do it. Right now, people are afraid to get their blood tested. Sometimes they are forced to have their blood tested. Insurance companies sometimes want a blood test. That blood test will tell far more than it ever did in the history of the world, and that can have some dire consequences, except for this bill. This bill will protect people.”