In other words, do you think trying to collect from patients while they're in pain in the emergency room is a bad policy?

I would find it absolutely abhorrent if any patients had been badgered by debt collectors in the emergency room.

I look forward to hearing from our experts about whether we need to strengthen the laws that protect us when we are at our most vulnerable.

American patients deserve better.

I'm not here to sit as judge or jury. I'm not here to resolve the dispute between Accretive and the attorney general.

I think the patient should affirmatively be given that information.

Do you think there's a better way to collect payment from patients than the way you were treated in the hospital?

I can't express enough the care that I received there, doctors and nurses, coordinators, food service people, housekeeping.

We recommend that the Department of Justice give serious consideration to a departmentwide default open file policy.

We've got to make sure when they come home, they come home to new jobs and new opportunities.

The public plays an important role in emergency preparedness.

We will pursue our longstanding goal of minimizing trade-distorting financing of exports from our global competitors.

We're helping thousands of businesses sell more of their products and services overseas.

I'm going to go anywhere I can in the world to create new markets for American goods.

I want to help provide incentives for folks to make those decisions.

We have to rebuild an America where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules.

The Export-Import Bank is playing an important role in contributing to this progress.

While we are not obligated to finish the work, neither are we free to desist from that work.