I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges. – Fred Upton
Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesnt include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. – Fred Upton
Under President Obamas new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. – Fred Upton
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didnt want to change the health care they had they didnt want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. – Fred Upton
If Obamacare is allowed to stand – and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory – there will be no meaningful limit on Washingtons reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. – John Cornyn