Bill Richardson in Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2013-2015

On Health Care: ObamaCare will be crowning achievement once we get it done

RICHARDSON: I think we should focus on the good things that have happened with ObamaCare. Healthcare prices have gone down; those insured with preexisting conditions, that's been resolved. The issue of seniors getting lower prescription drug costs, that's good. But a lot of it is up to governors. It's up to the states. I think eventually, when this ObamaCare is implemented, it will be one of his crowning achievements in the first term. But right now, short term, a lot of difficulty. There's a lot of politics. You have the Tea Party basically saying, "We're going to de-fund ObamaCare, or we're going to shut down the government." I mean, that's a suicide mission.