Dana Rohrabacher: “It is about health care in America. It is about providing more efficient health care. It is about saving lives for fewer…”

“It is about health care in America. It is about providing more efficient health care. It is about saving lives for fewer dollars. That is what this project would do. I represent a district that is the 45th largest district in the U.S. Congress. Many people in my district live a couple hours away from the nearest hospital. We have a lot of rural clinics. Those rural clinics will be tied in by this system, which is developing a model for rural medicine across America, so that when Blue River, OR, has a nurse-practitioner and there is a serious accident and they take the x ray, they can get real-time consultation with experts up in Portland and decide whether or not we have to dispatch a helicopter, a very expensive helicopter, on a mercy flight, or whether that person can be stabilized and transported an hour by ambulance to the nearest hospital.”