..."we're the only industrialized country on the entire planet that does not offer basic coverage to its citizens.
Because of globalization and the fact that we're not just competing with each other in terms of our states, but we're competing with other countries, the reality is that we provide the opportunity for health care, for not all Americans and, you know, 40, 50 million Americans are either not insured or underinsured, and the cost of health care keeps rising.
This, from an economic standpoint, is just not viable.
In talking from a political standpoint, there will be a vote on Wednesday to repeal the health care bill.
I'm sure it will pass the House because of the Republicans being the majority.
But a political reality is that it will not pass the Senate and even if it were to pass the Senate, it would be vetoed by President Obama. So, again, I think the best thing is for us to look at where the legislation currently is today and in a bipartisan fashion, try to fix the problems with the legislation.
But, you know, again, I come from Arizona, a state with a lot of uninsured people.
I voted for the health care reform bill in a Republican district.
I got reelected by having numerous town halls, numerous opportunities to explain what was actually in the bill, demystify, again, all of these claims that just were not true about the health care bill, and also committed to fix the problems that do exist in the current piece of legislation...
...looking at the health care bill, which was very contentious, when individual components of the health care bill were polled, for example, do people want to have their children continue on their insurance plans until they're 26 years of age? Yes.
Do people want to see donut hole close? Yes.
Do people want to have more affordable prescription drugs? Yes.
All of these things individually polled, but it's very difficult to go through such a productive, such an aggressive agenda.
A lot of accomplishments, but the American people are still struggling under years and years of poor economic decisions, which almost drove us back into a great depression....
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132685261/What-Lies-Ahead-For-The-112th-Congress
Because of globalization and the fact that we're not just competing with each other in terms of our states, but we're competing with other countries, the reality is that we provide the opportunity for health care, for not all Americans and, you know, 40, 50 million Americans are either not insured or underinsured, and the cost of health care keeps rising.
This, from an economic standpoint, is just not viable.
In talking from a political standpoint, there will be a vote on Wednesday to repeal the health care bill.
I'm sure it will pass the House because of the Republicans being the majority.
But a political reality is that it will not pass the Senate and even if it were to pass the Senate, it would be vetoed by President Obama. So, again, I think the best thing is for us to look at where the legislation currently is today and in a bipartisan fashion, try to fix the problems with the legislation.
But, you know, again, I come from Arizona, a state with a lot of uninsured people.
I voted for the health care reform bill in a Republican district.
I got reelected by having numerous town halls, numerous opportunities to explain what was actually in the bill, demystify, again, all of these claims that just were not true about the health care bill, and also committed to fix the problems that do exist in the current piece of legislation...
...looking at the health care bill, which was very contentious, when individual components of the health care bill were polled, for example, do people want to have their children continue on their insurance plans until they're 26 years of age? Yes.
Do people want to see donut hole close? Yes.
Do people want to have more affordable prescription drugs? Yes.
All of these things individually polled, but it's very difficult to go through such a productive, such an aggressive agenda.
A lot of accomplishments, but the American people are still struggling under years and years of poor economic decisions, which almost drove us back into a great depression....
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132685261/What-Lies-Ahead-For-The-112th-Congress