Quote Of The Day – Tommy Christopher

“First of all, I don’t if you’re aware of this, but when I had a heart attack three years ago, I was uninsured, and I haven’t been able to get insurance ever since then. Listening to all the pressure on the president to negotiate, a lot of it from inside this room, it made me think, is there a chance the president would be willing to delay Obamacare for a year if Republicans were to agree to delay heart attacks for a year?” – Mediaite reporter Tommy Christopher, speaking to White House spokesman Jay Carney at today’s press briefing.

Carney’s response: “Tommy, you know the president’s position is that we need to implement
the Affordable Care Act, and that when it comes to the millions of
Americans across the country who have had a very hard time getting
access to affordable health insurance, we need to focus on those folks
and continue the business of implementing the Affordable Care Act so
that on Jan. 1 those Americans will be able to purchase insurance,
quality insurance at affordable rates for the first time.”

Christopher then told Carney that he was able to enroll on the healthcare exchange site, but he’s not yet selected a plan.