Statements about Health Care
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it."
“Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs.”
"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
"Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent."
In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion."
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill."
The health care bill will "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
"Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it."
"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."
Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."
"The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."
The Democrats' health care bills would end "the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition," while the Republican bill would not.
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson "compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust."
"The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill."
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