John Garamendi: “The figures I was giving you are based on the Senate bill. Now, the additional changes that are going to be made…”

“The figures I was giving you are based on the Senate bill. Now, the additional changes that are going to be made, corrections to the Senate bill, will provide, we are quite confident, additional reductions in the cost of the total bill and reductions in the national deficit in the years ahead. The other thing that needs to be understood is that these cost reductions will be real, and many will be available in the near term, others as we learn how to implement the medical technology so that we have records that are readily available. So we will be able to see significant reductions in cost, as we have already discussed. One of the things that will also be available as a result of this legislation is the availability of medical providers. You touched on this and hit it hard, and we need to emphasize it once again. There is a lot of discussion like the bill has too many pages, some say. Well, many of those pages specifically deal with making sure that the medical providers are there, extending the availability of loans and programs for primary care doctors, for nurses, for nurse practitioners.”