John Shadegg: “I suppose, like a lot of us, people are confused about, well, what is the right overall solution and they are not quite…”

The truth is America's health insurance companies are playing under the rules we set, and the rules we set say they really don't have to compete for my individual business, for John Shadegg as an individual customer, or yours, or our…

It is clear that tort reform should be a part of this legislation, but of course it is not. I have tried to outline here, I told you that I had many, many kinds of special deals, backroom deals, behind the scenes deals--``change you can…

That's what we call defensive medicine, which means a doctor defending himself in advance or practicing defensive medicine because he is afraid he's going to get sued and has to be able to respond to that suit.

I think the health insurance industry in America has cut a fat hog. I think, quite frankly, they have failed the American people.