Quotable

“How are you going to feel if you have to go into an emergency room? You’ll walk in there, and see chair after chair of working poor people— hard-working people—knowing that’s their healthcare system, when we could have given them a better answer.” —Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, in a Reuters story, appealing to

fellow Republicans to expand Medicaid in the state “Given that we come from Kansas, it’s much easier to say, ‘Call your former governor.’ You say, ‘She’s the one. She’s responsible. She was your governor, elected twice, and now you re-elected the president, but he picked her.’ ” —Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) referring to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in The Hill, in a story on GOP members of Congress who say they won’t assist their constituents in obtaining

benefits under the health reform law “Although nearly a quarter of Americans say they don’t know their view on the ‘health reform law,’ the public is more opinionated when asked about ‘Obamacare’: the share offering no opinion drops to 11%, and the shares expressing both favorable and unfavorable views of the law rise when this term is used. Democrats show the biggest change in favorability with the alternate question wording—73% say they have a favorable opinion of ‘Obamacare’ compared to 58% who say the same for the ‘health reform law.’ ”

—Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for June 2013