breaks, and most people who can afford health insurance now have to take responsibility to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. right? now the reason we do that is when uninsured people who can afford to get health insurance don t and then they get sick or they get hit by a car and they show up at the emergency room, who do you think pays for that? you do. in the form of higher premiums because the hospitals, they ve got to get their money back somehow. so if they re treating someone that doesn t have health insurance they jack up premiums for everybody who has health insurance. it s like a hidden tax of $1,000 per family every year who s got health insurance. so we re saying that s not fair. if you can afford to have health insurance don t dump the cost on us. the law also requires employers with more than 50 employees to
and most people who can afford health insurance now have to take responsibility to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. now, the reason we do that is when uninsured people who can afford to get health insurance don t, and then they get sick or they get hit by a car, and they show up at the emergency room, who do you think pays for that? you do. in the form of higher premiums, because the hospitals, they ve got to get their money back somehow, so if they re treating somebody who doesn t have health insurance, they jack up premiums for everybody who does have health insurance. it s like a hidden tax of $1,000 per family every year who s got health insurance. so we re saying well, that s not fair. if you can afford to get health insurance, don t dump the cost on us. the law also requires employers
economy, the world s currency of choice. the entire world looks to us to make sure that the world economy is stable. you don t mess with that. you don t mess with that. [ applause ] and that s why i will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] we re not going to submit to this kind of total irresponsibility. congress needs to pay our bills on time. congress needs to pass a budget on time. congress needs to put an end to governing from crisis to crisis. our folk as a country should be on creating new jobs and growing
saying really wasn t true and they were just playing politics. just the other day, one republican in congress said we need to shove this thing down before the marketplaces open and people get to see that they ll be getting coverage and getting these subsidies, because and i m going to quote him here he said it s going to prove almost impossible to undo obama care, right? so in other words, we ve got to shut this thing down before people find out that they like it. that s a strange argument. don t you think that s a strange argument? and the closer we get, the more desperate they get. over the last few weeks, the rhetoric has just been cranked
they were just playing politics. just the other day one republican in congress said we need to shut this thing down before the marketplaces open and people get to see that they ll be getting coverage and getting these subsidies because and i m going to quote him here, he said it s going to prove almost impossible to undo obama care. so, in other words, we ve got to shut this thing down before people find out that they like it. [ applause ] that s a strange argument. don t you think that s a strange argument? and the closer we get the more desperate they get. i mean, over the last few weeks the rhetoric has just been cranked up to a place i ve never