Political Quotes

“Thank you, Dr. Benishek. Thank you for having this opportunity through these Special Orders. I've got a unique perspective of looking at health care through a dentist's eyes, something that has stayed market based and stayed very inflationary neutral. But before I do that, what I wanted to do is touch on my colleague, Ms. Buerkle, in regards to hospitals. I come from rural Arizona and more important aspects of hospital care is our rural hospitals and the solvency that we're seeing with them. They've taken an undue burden because we destroyed the patient-doctor relationship, the integral aspects of all the doctors with specialties and with the hospital. Many of the hospitals that I've been working with are finding that it's going to be insolvent very, very quickly; and, therefore, our safety net is going to be gone. We need to look no further to see government-run health care, particularly the longest-standing health care, and that's Native American health care. We see how detrimental it actually is. We have actually seen a group of people that are so despondent about the way government has taken care of their health care that they've invoked a clause called the self-determination act, in which they are taking back their health care needs within their communities, patient based, community based, preventive based. These are some of the things that we as health care professionals really support and really tried to build upon.…”