their health care isn t a glitch. president obama will be in boston, massachusetts today to speak about the affordable care act. reportedly he ll use the massachusetts health care law as an example of how obama care can succeed. if recent revelations about the extent of the nsa spying abroad were meant to shame the country, it didn t work. director of national intelligence james clapper saying the u.s. had spied on foreign leaders for years. he says those countries have returned the favor drawing a cinematic comparison. do you believe the allies have conducted or at anytime any type of espionage activity against the united states of america our intel against services or others? absolutely. it reminds me of casablanca. my god, there is gambling going on here? same kind of thing. on what ground?
politically you re going to explain your positions today. and since your entire political program is locked into hatred for the president and this program, it seems to me that we have to find other ways to for us to politically combat each other. because i hate to see the day that this no republican party. and i have to rely just on my party for justice and fair play. and so we have to come together some kind of way to see what s best for america. now, you may not like this program. and it certainly has been disappointing as a start. but what i want to see more from this committee is how can we improve and get quality health care for all americans? this has to be a part of the goal that all of you have. and you also have to recognize that when we re lucky enough to have public servants to work for
you re against big government. why should obama be spared the attack because he wants americans to be healthy and strong and productive? we have to be consistent and you guys and ladies have been. what i don t understand is that people aren t born as republican and democrats and there has to be somebody, regardless of party label, that has suffered the embarrassment and pain of being denied an insurance policy because they ve been sick before. the people who actually need health care the most are too high of a risk, but some of the insurance companies. and this body, republican and democrats allow things like this to happen. when i was a kid, if my mother took three of us, three children to see a doctor, and we weren t sick, they would think she was crazy. because you couldn t afford a doctor. now health care will provide you getting the type of treatment to
members of this committee, especially as it relates to our goal to provide health care for 30 million americans that can t afford or don t have access to it. but it should give you some small comfort to know that historically the republican party always fought vigorously against these type of programs. i don t think that one republican voted for the social security act even those old enough to enjoy the benefits that s not accurate. maybe one or two. i don t know. no. but they opposed medicare. i spoke with president johnson and he shared with me at the ranch the people that had signed off on medicare. and anyway, it s big government even if it saves live s. who cares?
avoid you being sick and having to lose your dignity and in a personal emergency that provide the most expensive health care that we have. but republicans who have always been admired for being fiscal conservatives have certainly seen the price of health care, the lack of quality that we may have today, soar to become such a part of our national budget that in my opinion it s a threat to our national security. because as prone as some of you are to entering into conflict with other countries, you need healthy young people to fight these wars. and health care is important from birth throughout one s life. so i don t know how you re going to explain when this program, which is destined to skied, how