On the recordMarch 11, 2010
Pretty stunning when you discover that, for example, lots of people can't find a doctor that will take them as a Medicare patient. And even more so, unfortunately America's poorest, who do get Medicaid, a program that some would advocate expanding, cannot find a doctor who will treat them under Medicaid because the reimbursement rates are so low. You know, we're mixing a discussion here of kind of the things that are procedurally wrong with the bill because they must pass, here in the House, the Senate bill exactly as it passed the Senate. We're talking about the special deals that are in that bill. But I think we ought to also be talking about this whole notion about do Republicans have any ideas. What is it that we would do? I've already talked about one. I said, look, if you fix the Tax Code so that every single American could buy health insurance tax free, just like those who get it from their employer, you would go, instantaneously, just with that one fix, toward solving I think the single biggest inequity in American Society.
