"To me, if I'm the average guy on Main Street, if we're playing basketball, this is a blatantly flagrant foul in which you have time-out, you take a penalty, and you are excused from process, from playing the game at all."
"Is it just limited to the private sector, or is it also for public health?"
"Being a health care provider who did Medicaid for 7 years and left it for all the reasons they talked about, I did not stop; I just provided it for free."
"I doubt that they would give you a above a D. Don't you agree with me?"
"It seems to me like we're talking about a broken system."
"And it's going to be problematic when you dump another 20 million people in there."
"And I think that's what we're failing to do is empowering people."
"I think that with the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the Affordable Care Act language on trying to better go after fraud, we're all collectively better acknowledging."
"the process, the whole process is broken here because the problem for this gentleman, Mr. West, here would have been a lot less if he was empowered to help make those decisions on the ground."
"Do we have the same scrutiny on federally qualified health centers as we do everybody else?"
"But in this government take-over of health care, that's the only way I can talk about it, okay, we are going to dump another 20 million people into this, into a broken system."