Peter Camejo Quotes


If your grocery store owner provided your health care plan, I can guarantee you that it would be cheaper for him and inconvenient for you.


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Peter Camejo, Unsuccessful Candidate for California Governor (Green Party), California Gubernatorial Recall Debate, September 24, 2003

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This statement, along with {633806}, was made by the President dozens of times. It is a quotation that had more influence on the political status of the nation than most others. Why Obama made such an absolute statement has been a mystery since, but the statement could not possibly have been literally true as long as the insurance companies had the right to cancel existing plans. When they did, they often laid the blame on the Obamacare rules, when the rules had grandfathered them in, but these were policies that the insurance companies saw as not sufficiently profitable in the new health insurance environment. The Republicans and many Democrats castigated Obama as millions of American lost their health insurance despite the President’s oft stated promise. Though not recognized at the time, the statement turned out to have been a huge gaff.


Before Obamacare was passed, insurance companies could unilaterally decide who gets health insurance and who does not. Even after they allowed a person to have health insurance, they could then cancel it in many cases after someone got sick. So they determined who could or could not get health insurance,


Peter Camejo
Peter Camejo
  • Born: December 31, 1939
  • Died: September 13, 2008
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businessman

Peter Miguel Camejo Guanche was a Venezuelan American author, activist and politician. In the 2004 United States presidential election, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate on a ticket which had the endorsement of the Reform Party.